Unit 1- Intro to Earth Science
Unit 2- Geology
Unit 3- Oceanology
Unit 4- Meteorology
Unit 5- Astronomy
100
This is the term for the earth spinning 24 hours.
What is rotation?
100
This is the superocean surrounding Pangaea 200 million years ago.
What is Panthalassa?
100
This is a mini-submarine which sinks to the ocean floor and has mobility.
What is Bathyscaphe?
100
This is the measurement of how much light is reflected from any surface.
What is Albedo?
100
This is dirty snowballs made of frozen gases and debris, typically have large, irregular orbits.
What is a comet?
200
This is the first day of spring.
What is the Vernal Equinox?
200
This is a underwater mountain chain formed as new magma rises to the mid-surface.
What is a Mid-ocean Ridge?
200
This is a collection of sediment found at the bottom of the continental slope.
What is Continental Rise?
200
These are man-made chemicals found in refrigerators, air conditioners, and hairspray that destroy ozone.
What are CFC's?
200
This is all the universe was once in a tiny atom-sized area.
What is Big Bang Theory?
300
This is slightly wider at the equator, due to faster rotation
What is Oblate Spheroid?
300
This is flat-topped seamounts from erosion of waves.
What is Guyots?
300
This is when two air masses move into a hot air mass.
What is an occluded front?
300
This is when the universe expanding as all galaxies move apart.
What is the hubble law?
400
This is the 4th step in the Scientific Method.
What is test the hypothesis?
400
These are surface waves.
What are Rayleigh Waves and Love Waves?
400
This is the newly designated Ocean surrounding Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean?
400
This is light energy is bent or broken into its separate colors.
What is scattering?
400
This is the smallest planet with no atmosphere.
What is Mercury?
500
This is the difference in data?
What is Variance?
500
This is a device used to record and measure seismic waves.
What is a Seismograph?
500
This is the opposing force of gravity.
What is Inertia?
500
This is when gases allow sunlight to heat the Earth and then they hold onto the heat?
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
500
this is when they form from impacts of metors
What is craters
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