Weather
What is the weather system will bring brief, heavy rain and thunderstorms followed by colder temperatures.
A cold front
What type of rock forms when magma or lava cools and hardens?
Igneous
What type of boundary forms as two plates slide back and forth against each other?
Transform boundary
How would Haden Earth be described?
As a sea of hot, molten material.
What is the name given for lakes, rivers, puddles, and the like where water gets stored?
Collection
Which weather system brings, nice sunny weather?
High pressure
The process of sediment hardening together is known as what process?
Cementation
What type of plate boundary pushes plates towards each other?
Convergent
The time during the Archean Eon when cyanobacteria released a tremendous amount of oxygen into the atmosphere which lead to an ice age. What was Earth known as during this time?
Snowball Earth
Plants give off water through there leaves which will be evaporated in which process?
Transpiration
How do winds travel around a Low Pressure System?
warm, moist air lifts and fans out counter-clockwise
What process will carry away sediment forming ditches, culverts, and even large canyons?
Erosion
What type of plate boundary will push plates away from each other?
Divergent
The last multicellular organism to appear on Earth was...
Humans
What is the name given for a lake, that is usually man made, that stores water for human recreation and need as well as for animals to use?
Reservoir
What forms when two different air masses meet?
a weather front
What process would occur if a large tree fell on a boulder and broke that boulder into smaller pieces of rock?
Weathering
In a convergent boundary, older, denser oceanic crust will push and slide underneath lighter, younger continental crust. What type of zone is this known as?
A subduction zone
What was formed as debris that was thrown out into space from a planet colliding with Earth clumped together and got caught up in Earth's gravitational pull?
The moon
Any type of water falling from clouds, either frozen or liquid is known as:
Precipitation
What type of weather map shows areas of equal temperatures and is color coded?
An isobar map
Which rock will form from another type rock undergoing tremendous heat and pressure?
Metamorphic rock
What do Transform boundaries create? What do convergent boundaries create?
Transform = earthquakes
Convergent = mountains and trenches
What was the name given to the one large landmass that appeared on Earth during the Archean Eon?
Pangea
What are the two names given for the processes that allow precipitation that has landed on the Earth's surface to seep into and underneath the ground?
Infiltration and percolation