Unit 1: Intro to Earth Science
Unit 2: Geology
Unit 3: Oceanology
Unit 4: Meteorology
Unit 5: Astronomy
100
Slightly wider at the equator due to the faster rotation; Earth for an example.
What is Oblate Spheroid?
100
Supercontinent when all Earth land was connected 200 million years ago.
What is Pangaea?
100
Percent of the Earth's water is found in the oceans.
What is 97%?
100
Surface layer of the earth; very warm, contains all weather and life.
What is Troposphere?
100
"Earth centered"
What is geocentric?
200
Things in the experiments that change.
What is variables?
200
A commander whom discovered mid-ocean ridges on the ocean floor. Took samples of the ridges and discovered the occurrence of sea floor spreading.
What is Harry Hess?
200
Average of salt ppt that is found in dissolved water.
What is 35 ppt?
200
The measurement of how much light is reflected from any surface.
What is Albedo?
200
"Dirty Snowballs"
What is comets?
300
The scientific method listed in order.
What is stated the problem, gather information, form a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, then state a conclusion?
300
The point underground where the stress is released along the fault and seismic waves are then created.
What is focus (hypocenter)?
300
Waves break far out and gently spill on the shoreline due to flat coastline.
What is spilling breakers?
300
Forms over the ocean and in the tropics.
What is Maritime Tropical?
300
Hottest planet with thick atmosphere.
What is Venus?
400
An imaginary line through the poles tilted at 23.5
What is Axis?
400
Magma cools slowly and has a ropy texture.
What is Pahoehoe?
400
Waves form a tunnel and break along the shoreline due to medium slope.
What is plunging breakers?
400
A wave of energy slightly longer in wavelength than visible light, it is invisible and causes heat to be emitted.
What is infrared radiation?
400
Lowlands, darker cooled lava.
What is maria?
500
The difference in data.
What is variance?
500
Fine crystals and some large crystals.
What is Porphyritic?
500
First two people to travel to the single deepest location on Earth spot named the "Challenger Deep" found in the Mariana Trench.
What is Jacques Picard and Don Walsh?
500
Light energy is taken in by an object and turned into heat.
What is absorption?
500
Rigid, lighter colored material.
What is highlands?
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