What is missing? Universe - ______ - Solar System - Planets - Sun
What is a galaxy?
100
Created through the process of heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
100
Underground, lava is called this.
What is magma?
100
At least this number of stations are required to determine where the epicenter of an earthquake is.
What is three?
100
The continuous movement of water.
What is the water cycle?
200
The center of mass between two planetary bodies.
What is barycenter.
200
Created by compacting and cementation.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
Type of convergent boundary that creates volcanoes?
What is a subduction zone?
200
Located directly below the epicenter, the point of fault.
What is the focus?
200
Process of water turning into vapor.
What is evaporation?
300
Planets closer to their sun will move faster than when they are farther away.
What is Kepler's Second Law?
300
The process that all igneous rocks must undergo before cooling.
What is melting?
300
Type of volcanic eruption that creates a mushroom cloud of volcanic debris, ash, lava and super-heated gases.
What is a pyroclastic eruption/flow?
300
The three boundaries at which earthquakes can occur. (all 3 required for points)
What are convergent, divergent & transform.
300
Movement of large amounts of water about the globe.
What are currents?
400
The study of the universe and everything outside of earth's atmosphere.
What is astronomy?
400
The liquid-like layer that makes up the outer mantle on which the tectonic plates move.
What is the asthenosphere?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! Type of weathering where a new product is formed.
What is chemical weathering?
400
This type of wave travels the fastest and does not typically cause much damage.
What is a body wave or the P-wave.
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! Movement of liquids and gases in a pattern where hot substances rise and cool substances sink. (both words required for credit)
What are convection currents?
500
The additional wobble of earth's axis created by the gravity of the moon.
What is nutation?
500
Explain how the ocean became salty....
Erosion of mineral rocks released salt into the rivers which is carried out to the ocean. Only water can be evaporated from the ocean, leaving behind salt in a higher concentration.
500
This type of volcano creates the most explosive reactions.
What is a composite volcano?
500
The scale used by most seismologist to indicate the strength and intensity of an earthquake.
What is the moment-magnitude scale.
500
NOT REQUIRED. Device used to visualize the bottom of the ocean requiring sound waves.