Unit 1: Intro to Earth Science
Unit 2:
Geology
Unit 3:
Oceanography
Unit 4:
Meteorology
Unit 5:
Astronomy
100
What is the difference in data?
Variance
100
What is the super ocean surrounding Pangaea 200 million years ago?
Panthalassa
100
What is the continental shelf?
It is a flat extension of the continent found underwater.
100
What is the troposphere?
Troposphere is the surface layer
100
What is a Galaxy?
Group of Star Systems bound together by gravity.
200
What are things that do not change in an experiment?
Invariables
200
Who was Harry Hess?
He was a geologist who became a navy sub commander in World War 2 who discovered seafloor spreading.
200
What is a Guyot?
Flat-topped sea mounts from the erosion of waves (covered up islands)
200
What are CFCs?
Man-Made chemicals found in refrigerators, air conditioners and hairspray that destroy the ozone.
200
What is the Hubble Law?
It is the concept that the Universe is expanding as all the galaxies are moving apart.
300
What is used to locate any position on earth using satellites and triangulation?
Global Positioning System
300
What are magnetic reversals?
They are magnetic polarities that match on both sides of the mid-ocean ridges.
300
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Because the Earth is rotating, currents in the Northern Hemisphere deflect to the right and currents in the Southern Hemisphere deflect to the left.
300
What is a stationary front?
It is a Hot air mass that come together and stay in one spot.
300
What is the Big Bang Theory?
All of the Universe was once in a tiny-atom sized area and "exploded" outward forming the Universe as it is today.
400
What runs vertically Measure from Eat to west?
Longtitude
400
What are Intraplate Earthquakes?
They are earthquakes hat occur in the middle of plates and not at plate boundaries.
400
What are Spring and Neap tides?
Spring Tides are stronger higher and low tides due to the parallel alignment of the Sun, Moon, and the Earth. Neap Tides are weaker high and Low tides due to the perpendicular alignment of the Sun, Moon and the Earth.
400
How do tornadoes form?
It forms when hot,humid rises rapidly forming Cumulonimbus clouds.
400
What is a characteristic of Neptune?
It has a horizontal rotation.
500
What season is it when the sun strikes at the highest point above the equator?
Summer Solstice
500
What are the characteristics of all minerals?
1.Solid 2.Inorganic 3.Occur naturally 4.Orderly crystalline Structure 5.Same Chemical Composition
500
What is a plunging breaker?
A plunging breaker is when the waves form a tunnel and break along the shoreline due to medium slope.
500
What are the percentages of Nitrogen,Oxygen, Water Vapor, Carbon Dioxide and the Ozone?
Nitrogen: 78% Oxygen:21% Water Vapor:0.4% Carbon Dioxide: 0.38% Ozone: 0.000006
500
Why is Mars called "The Red Planet"?
It is due to the great volcanic activity
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