Continental drift
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Weather
Oceanography
100
Pangaea
What is all of earth in greek
100
layer that makes up the plate tectonics
What is lithosphere (moves on top of asthenosphere)
100
scale used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake
What is Richter Scale (0-10)
100
main components that make up our atmosphere
What is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon/other
100
the 5 oceans
What is the Artic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean
200
A scientist who came up with the evidence to support continental drift
What is Alfred Wegener
200
convection currents
What is the process of magma in the asthenosphere heating up from lower mantle becoming less dense and rises then cools and sinks
200
Earthquake damage
What is structural damage fires land/mud slides tsunami
200
conduction, convection, radiation
What is transfer of heat by contact when air warms and rises bringing heat to the upper atmosphere earth heated from sun's rays
200
Oceanography, Paleoceanography
What is the study of oceans the science of the history of oceans over geologic time
300
Seafloor spreading discovered by Harry Hess
What is the process where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and them gradually moves away from the ridge.
300
types of plate boundaries
What is convergent --><-- divergent <-- --> transform ||
300
the focus, epicenter, transform boundary
What is an underground area along a fault line where the earthquake begins the point directly above the focus that we look for to pinpoint the exact location of where the quake took place a boundary where two plates slide parallel to each other
300
equation for relative humidity
What is relative humidity = the actual amount of water vapor in the air / amount of water vapor that could be in the air at that temperature * 100
300
Deepest point in the ocean
What is the Challenger Deep, the Mariana Trench (36,198 ft – greater than 6 miles)
400
continental drift
What is a theory proposed by Antonio Snider-Pellegrini, later advanced by Alfred Wegener that all continents were once one large supercontinent
400
the ring of fire
What is the linear zone of seismic and volcanic activity that coincides in general with the margins of the Pacific Plate.
400
Folds and Faults
What is Fault: Normal <-- --> Reverse --><-- Lateral || Fold: Syncline Anticline Monocline
400
isobars
What is a line drawn on a weather map or chart that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same
400
ways the ocean moves
What is 1. Currents 2. Tides (2 high tides + 2 low tides) 3. Waves 4. Water Cycle
500
scientists did not except this theory
What is Wegner could not explain how continents could move
500
Wegener's evidence
What is 1. shapes of continents (puzzle) 2. fossils 3. glacial 4. geological deposits 5. mountain range 6. living animals/plants
500
the elastic rebound theory
What is the theory that rocks are under stress thus thy deform elastically until the strain is too much and they break creating a new fault, or movement in an already existing fault
500
Formation of a tornado
What is warm moist air rises from the south meets cold air from the north a supercell is formed cumulonimbus was formed high winds gain speed in a spiral causing a low pressure system condensation begins to form and a funnel appears
500
the four kinds of sediment
What is 1. Lithogenous: from lithifred sediment (turned into rock by weathering 2. Biogenous: from remains of marine animals (fesses) 3. Hydrogenous: from minerals in the water 4. Cosmogenous: extraterrestrial material
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