Final 20
Vast salt layers exist ______________ feet below Earth's surface.
What is 20,000?
The theory that explain the existence of a frozen mammoth.
What is hydroplate theory?
The layer between the surface layer and the bottom layer of the ocean.
What is thermocline?
A location's climate is influenced by latitude, proximity to large bodies of water, ocean currents and prevailing wind, vegetative cover and elevation, and mountain ______________.
What is ranges?
The ocean SURFACE currents are driven by winds, the Coriolis effect, and changes in gravitation pull by the ________________.
What is the moon?
In the Big Bang theory, what caused the expansion from a singularity is _________________.
What is unknown?
The boundary between Earth's crust and the mantle.
What is Moho?
In the thermocline, temperature _____________ rapidly with increased depth.
What is decreases?
The deformation of sedimentary rock in ocean trenches is _________.
What is minor OR small?
A system of SURFACE ocean currents.
What is a gyre?
Respect is not interfering with the happiness and ___________ of others.
What is success?
Above the Moho, rock is thoroughly fractured and saturated with ________________.
What is water?
A thunderstorm with heavy precipitation WOULD/WOULD NOT have a large impact on the density of ocean water. (Pick one answer)
What is would not?
Supercritical water is ________ viscous than normal water.
What is less?
A density current in the ocean is caused by difference in temperature and in the ___________ of ocean water.
What is salinity?
The constellation which includes the Big Dipper.
What is Ursa Major.
The tilt of Earth's axis of rotation has decreased from 25 degrees to about 23.5 degrees in the past ________ years.
What is 4000?
The two main factors which affect GLOBAL ocean water density are temperature and _________.
What is salinity?
Supercritical water cools quickly when pressure is reduced, and has water droplets with a high surface area to _________________ ratio.
What is volume?
Another name of solar radiation.
What is insolation?
The constellation which includes the Little Dipper.
What is Ursa Minor?
During the past ________ years, fossils rarely formed because plants and animals decay.
What is 1000?
The amount in feet by which a plateau is uplifted from the surrounding area.
What is 500 OR more than 500?
Each particle of matter requires a particle of ________________.
What is antimatter?
The mid-Oceanic ridge is comprised of _________.
What is basalt?