Earth's Materials
Lines that are measured in degrees east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude
The highest layer of the atmosphere
What is the thermosphere.
Ocean that is the deepest on average
What is the Pacific Ocean
Time when the earth is closest to the sun
What is perihelion
A weak, easily deformed layer in the mantle
What is the asthenosphere
Made up by the earth's crust, mantle, and core
What is the Geosphere
The process of changing a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation
Viscosity, and dissolved gases
What are the factors affecting eruptions
The layer of gray debris that covers the moon
What is a lunar regolith
Thought to be the major mechanism involved in convective flow downwards into the mantle
What is slab-pull
Resources that take millions of years to replenish
What are nonrenewable resources
The ultimate cause of wind on Earth
What is the unequal heating of Earth by the sun
Shield, Cinder Cones, and Composite Cones.
What are the types of volcanoes
The movement of Earth's axis, which traces a circular pattern
What is precession
The largest intrusive igneous bodies
What are batholiths
Main source of energy for earth
What is the sun
Front that forms when warm air moves into an area with cooler air
What is a warm front
The fragments ejected during eruptions
What are pyroclastic materials
Planet's movement around it axis
What is rotation
A type of fold that is formed when rock layers are folded into an arch
What is an anticline
Science that deals with the history and origin of the universe
What is astronomy
The increase in Earth's average surface temperatures during the twentieth century
What is global warming
The horizontal distance between adjacent wave troughs
What are wavelength
Planet's movement around a point in space
What is revolution
An upwarped structure with the oldest rocks in the center
What is a dome