Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Liquid rock under the Earth's surface is called:
Magma
What is the name of the swiftly-moving warm current that flows North along the East Coast of the U.S.A.?
The Gulf Stream
The warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of Earth that occurs when carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gases in the air absorb and reradiate solar radiation.
The Greenhouse Effect
Any form of water that falls to Earth's surface is called:
Precipitation
Which fraction represents how much of your Earth weight you would have on the Moon?
1/6
A _____ is a break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another.
Fault
The _____ is a vast flat level that covers over half of the deep-ocean basin.
Abyssal Plain
The process of introducing freezing or condensing particles into a cloud to cause rain to fall is:
Cloud Seeding
When a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming liquid.
Sublimation
When the Moon is closest to the Earth, it is at:
Perigee
The point on the Earth's surface directly above where the earthquake started.
Epicenter
Which layer of the ocean has a greater temperature drop as depth increases?
Themocline
The layer of oxygen with three atoms that absorbs harmful radiartion from the sun.
The Ozone Layer.
The curving path of a moving object like a plane or a hurricane due to Earth's rotation is called:
The Coriolis Effect
This is another word for the powdered rocks and dust on the Moon.
Regolith
These compression waves are the fastest seismic waves, so they are always the first to be detected.
P-Waves
Which benthic zone contains the most organisms?
Sublittoral Zone
Which area of the planet is struck the most directly by the Sun's energy?
Equator
________ is a measure of how close the air is to reaching the dew point.
Relative Humidity
Galileo named the dark areas on the Moon _______, the Latin word for "sea."
Mare
This large circular depression forms when the chamber below the volcano partially empties and causes the ground above to sink.
Caldera
List the three parts of the continental margin:
Continental Shelf, Continental Slope, and Continental Rise
Which rays are not shorter than visible light?
radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves.
Name 3 of the 4 ways clouds can form.
Adiabatic cooling. Mixing
Lifting. Advective cooling
______ are small rocks drifting in space, when they burn up in the atmosphere we call them ______. If they are still intact after they hit the ground they are ______.
Meteorides, meteors, meteorites