Igneous Rocks
Atmosphere
Data Interpretation
Storms
Damages
100
The primary determinant of magma viscosity
What is silica content?
100
The energy required to raise the temperature of a substance by one degree C
What is specific heat?
100
The following graph indicates _______ leading up to the eruption. What would cause this?
Movement towards the southwest an up, presumably due to inflation
100
The most frequent Indiana weather hazard
What is flooding (and tornadoes)?
100
The damage rating of the following location:
What is EF 5?
200
The following is an example of this subtype of igneous rock:
What is a plutonic / intrusive igneous rock?
200
Water changing from gas to liquid form
What is condensation?
200
It most likely to rain at this location in a few hours.
What is location B?
200
Advancing cold fronts that force moist air to rise quickly result in
What are thunderstorms?
200
The most likely reason this building collapsed
What is an unbraced soft story?
300
The following is an example of this subtype of rock:
What is an extrusive / volcanic igneous rock?
300
The boundary between two air masses with different temperatures
What is a front?
300
The signal that indicates magma is migrating towards the surface:
What is D: Harmonic tremor
300
The safe thing to do if caught outside with impending tornadoes
Lay down in a ditch
300
The most likely reason this clocktower is still standing while the building next door is destroyed
What is an earthquake wave with the same frequency as the resonant frequency of the neighboring building.
400
The composition of the following rock:
Low in silica
400
Low pressure systems result in this type of weather
Clouds and Rain
400
The important thing to know about the following dataset.
The magnetic anomalies are a mirror image on either side of the ridge, implying that the entire ocean floor was created at the ridge and subsequently moved outward from it in either direction
400
A rapidly rotating column of air often spawned by a supercell thunderstorm
What are tornadoes?
400
The type of hazard responsible for the damage shown
What is tephra fallout?
500
The explosivity of an igneous rock with abundant pink and light colored minerals
What is high explosivity?
500
The phenomenon, due to the rotation of the Earth, that makes objects moving north or south appear to deflect from their course
What is the Coriolis effect?
500
The graph that indicates tornado formation is possible.
What is A: The air is warm and near the dew point (holding almost all the moisture it can possible hold) and there is a temperature inversion (of dry air) that will suppress this air from rising until it is even warmer and wetter.
500
The four requirements for tornado formation
What are wind shear, lift, moisture, instability
500
The type of hazard responsible for the damage shown:
What is pyroclastic flow?