Volcanoes, minerals, rocks
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Louisiana geology
Atmosphere
100
A natural inorganic, crystalline solid found in the earth’s crust.
What is a mineral?
100
a single landmass thought to have been the origin of all continents. Surrounding Pangea was a huge ocean called
What is pangea ad panthalassa.
100
The fastest seismic waves and can travel through solids, liquids, and gases inside of Earth.
What is P wave?
100
Areas where water covers the soil, or is present either at or near the surface of the soil.
What is wetland?
100
Layer of gases and tiny particles that surrounds the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
200
You will find volcanoes at these boundaries.
What is convergent and divergent.
200
Movement of the ocean floor away from either side of a mid-ocean ridge. This is also a _______________boundary.
What is sea floor spreading and divergent boundary.
200
This focus causes a lot of damage because it is closer to the earth's surface.
What is shallow focus?
200
Randy digs a layer of soil in front of the school. He will find older soil on the bottom and younger soil on the top.
What is the LAW OF SUPERPOSITION?
200
Also known as O3, this layer protects the earth’s inhabitants by absorbing harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun.
What is ozone?
300
Name one way we can predict volcanoes
What is measuring pH for acidity, looking at past records, and measuring earthquakes.
300
Name and DRAW THE THREE TYPES OF BOUNDARIES
What is DIVERGENT, CONVERGENT, AND TRANSFORM.
300
Vibrations of the earth's crust. They occur at a certain place.
What is earthquake and faults!
300
Louisiana is losing a lot of wetlands. This is scary because the most recent statistics tell us that we are losing_________ every______________.
What is 1 football field every half hour?
300
When clouds, dust, and gas molecules do not absorb sunlight
What is scattering or reflection?
400
____________rocks are formed by cooling and hardening of hot lava. __________rocks are formed by heat and pressure. __________ rocks are formed when sediments are glued together.
What is igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary.
400
Geologic features that plate boundaries can create.
What is MOUNTAINS, ISLANDS, VOLCANOES
400
Two ways to predict and earthquake.
What is 1) Look at animal behavior (birds start flying wildly in the sky) 2) Look at past records
400
Ms. Abazova digs bones for fun. She found dinosaur bones, and after doing some tests, she found out that they are very old (aka. millions of years!) She measured a lot of this element.
What is U238
400
You put a pot of water to boil. Over time it starts to boil, meaning that heated water from the bottom goes to the top. If you touch the pot of water, you would burn your hand. These are two different types of heat transfer.
What is convection conduction.
500
How does magma form? three ways!
What is 1) increase temperature 2) increase pressure 3) add fluids like water
500
Three pieces of evidence that Wegener proposed for the theory continental drift.
What is similar fossils in different continents, ice debris in different continents, and similar rocks in different continents.
500
Tsunami and how they caused.
What is a major earthquake with an epicenter on the ocean floor. They occur when faults cause the ocean floor to move and raise the sea level.
500
Three ways Louisiana's geology is unique!
What is Red soil deposited by the Quachita mountains Oil, which is around salt domes. Deltas, which were built by the Mississippi River.
500
When atmosphere traps infrared rays over the earth’s surface. Since the early 1920s, humans have released a large amount of CO2 via cars, factories, and power plants. This CO2 stays trapped in the atmosphere and does not let sunlight to escape.
What is the greenhouse effect and how humans have negatively impacted the greenhouse effect.
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