What is Earth Science?
Minerals
Earthquakes
Continental Drift
Volcanoes
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The name of the group of sciences that deal with Earth and its neighbors in space.
What is Earth Science
100
Rows of the periodic table are called this.
What are periods?
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Occur prior to the earthquake.
What is foreshock.
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The term Wegener gave to describe the large land mass called the supercontinent.
What is pangaea?
100
Shield, Cinder cones, and composite cones refer to what?
What is the types of volcanoes?
200
The study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate.
What is Meteorology?
200
A substance that consist of two or more elements combined.
What is a compound?
200
The location directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
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Similar coastlines matching up is related to which part of Wegener's continental drift evidence?
What is Continental Puzzle?
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Locations on earth were there are the most active volcanoes is referred to as the _____________________?
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
Earth consist of four major spheres.
What are Hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
300
Ionic, Covalent, and Metallic are classified as this.
What is chemical bonds?
300
Fractures along the earth where movement has occured.
What is a fault?
300
Finding the Mesosaurus on both South American and African coast provide which kind of evidence?
What is Fossil Evidence.
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The most dangerous volcanoes are this type.
What is composite cones?
400
The sources that drive earth's external and internal processes.
What is the sun and earths interior.
400
Mass/Volume is a minerals what?
What is Density?
400
Show three types of seismic waves.
What is seismogram?
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Occurs when two plates move apart. (Type of boundary)
What is Divergent Boundary?
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A large depression in a volcano.
What is a caldera?
500
Suggests that the bodies of our solar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud.
What is the nebular hypothesis.
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Naturally occuring, solid substance, orderly crystalline structure, definite chemical composition, and inorganic all describe this.
What is a mineral?
500
Historically, scientists have used two different types of measurements to describe the size of an earthquake.
What is intensity and magnitude?
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This theory states that the uppermost mantle, along withe the overlying crust, behaves as a strong, rigid layer. And the plates continuously move.
What is Plate Tectonics?
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A substance's resistance to flow is it's what?
What is viscosity?
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