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What state in the US is there a high risk of earthquakes?
California
100
the hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain
caldera
100
Earth spinning on its axis is called
rotation
100
The red planet is
Mars
100
The average, year after year conditions of temperature and precipitation of an area is it's
climate
200
A force that acts on a rock to change its shape or volume
stress
200
Inside a volcano, magma collects in a pocket called a
magma chamber
200
A push or pull is a
force
200
Which planet is the smallest planet?
Mercury
200
In which climate are temperatures always at or below freezing
ice cap
300
The point beneath Earth's surface where the crust breaks and triggers an earthquake
focus
300
A volcano that is erupting or has shown signs that is may erupt in the future is called
active
300
the tendency of an object to resist a change in motion is
inertia
300
A loose collection of ice, dust, and small rocky particles that orbits the sun is a(n)
comet
300
A WARM-water event in the Pacific Ocean is called
El Nino
400
The process that occurs when an earthquake's shaking turns loose soil into mud
liquefaction
400
Gently sloping mountain formed by repeated lava flows
shield volcano
400
the darkest part of the moon's shadow is the
umbra
400
Loops of gas on the sun that link different parts of sunspot regions together
prominences
400
A small area with climate conditions different from those around it is called a
microclimate
500
An instrument used to measure and record ground movements during an earthquake is called a
seismograph
500
An area where magma melts through the crust in the middle of a plate is called a
hot spot
500
The great space race was between the United States and
Russia
500
The inner planets are all made of
rock
500
The south end of Earth's axis is tilted toward the sun in which month?
June
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