What are the different Seasons? and how is the light hitting Earth?
Summer Solstice- sun strikes at highest point
Winter Solstice- sun strikes at lowest point
Autumnal(Autumn) Equinox- sun strikes directly on equator
Vernal(Spring) Equinox- strikes directly on equator
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What is Panthalassa?
The super ocean surrounding Pangaea.
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What is the bathyscaphe and bathysphere?
Bathyscaphe- metal sphere which is lowered on cables to the deep ocean floor
Bathysphere- mini submarine which sinks to the ocean floor and is mobile.
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From greatest to least what is the order of the gases in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, carbon dioxide, and then the ozone
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What are the geocentric and heliocentric theories?
Geocentric- "earth centered" theory
Heliocentric- "sun-centered" theory
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What are variable and invariables?
Variables- things in the experiments THAT change
Invariables- things in the experiments that DO NOT change
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Who had helped support/discover seafloor spreading?
1. State the Problem
2. Gather info.
3. Form hypothesis
4. Test hypothesis
5. State conclusion
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Layers of the mantle?
Lithosphere is on top of the Asthenosphere
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What are the Layers of the ocean
Surface layer, thermocline, deep ocean zone
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4 different fronts? & what they do?
Cold- cold into a hot air mass
Warm- warm air into cold air mass
Stationary- two come together and stay in one spot
Occluded fronts- two cold move into a hot making a sandwich
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Phases of the moon?
New Moon> Waxing Crescent> 1st quarter> Waxing gibbous> full moon> waning gibbous> 3rd quarter> Waning crescent> New Moon
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What is the Global Positioning System?
A way to locate any position on earth using satellites and triangulation
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What is the focus (Hypocenter)?
the point underground where the stress is released and where the seismic waves are created.
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What are the Spring and Neap tides?
Spring- stronger high and low tides due to parallel alignment of sun, moon & earth
Neap- weaker high and low due to perpendicular of the sun, moon, & earth
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What is Albedo?
the measurement of how much light is reflected from any surface
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What is the Hubble Law?
The law that the Universe is expanding
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Order of the layers of the Earth?
Crust is the top most layer, mantle is the solid, liquid, then the outer core liquid metals, to the inner core
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Different rock types?
Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic
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what causes of the tides?
it involves the sun's gravity and inertia
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What types of storms do the different fonts bring?
Cold- heavy rains, and sometimes storms
Warm- light rain
Stationary- light rain for a long time
Occluded- produces strong winds, rain and storms, sometimes tornadoes
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Structure of the Sun?
Made of lots of hydrogen and then turns into helium