Structure
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes/Volcanoes
Atmosphere/Weather
Climate
100
The outermost layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
100
The type of plate that is more dense than continental plates.
What are oceanic plates?
100
If enough of this is produced inside the earth it will rise to the surface spewing forth creating a volcano.
What is magma?
100
Makes up 78% of the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
100
The winds that blow along the equator.
What are the trade winds?
200
The hottest layer of the Earth.
What is the inner core?
200
The type of boundary where plates move together.
What is convergent?
200
The build up and sudden release of this results in an earthquake.
What is stress?
200
The gas associated with humidity.
What is water?
200
It causes air masses to turn as they head northward from the equator. This prevents the winds from going straight from the equator to the poles.
What is the Coriolis effect?
300
The largest layer by volume.
What is the mantle?
300
The type of boundary where plates slide past each other.
What is transform?
300
The method of earthquake prediction that relies on earthquakes happening on a schedule.
What is recurrence rates?
300
The type of heat transfer that causes warm air masses to rise.
What is convection?
300
It is why climates on one side of mountains often differ from climates on the other side of mountains.
What is a rain shadow?
400
The material that makes up the outer and inner core.
What is iron?
400
The Himalayas are caused by these types of plates doing this kind of movement.
What are converging continental plates?
400
The method of magma production that occurs at divergent plate boundaries.
What is a decrease in pressure?
400
The reason that a balloon expands as it rises through the atmosphere.
What is decreasing pressure?
400
The direction that ocean currents rotate in the southern hemisphere.
What is counterclockwise?
500
Their absence from seismograph readings led seismologist to determine that the interior of the earth contains a liquid layer.
What are S waves?
500
Volcanic island chains are the result of these types of plates doing this kind of movement.
What are converging oceanic plates?
500
The method of earthquake prediction that relies on finding spaces along faults where earthquakes have not occurred in recent history.
What is Seismic Gaps?
500
The reason that the lowest layer of the atmosphere is so warm.
What is surface conduction?
500
The main two predictors of climate.
What are temperature and moisture?
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