Volcanoes
What is the active volcano area around the Pacific Rim called?
Ring of Fire
One reason the Earth is hot inside is because of "heat information". What is the other source of earth's internal heat?
Radioactive decay
List 3 elements of weather
What is temperature, precipitation, air pressure and wind speed
Climate is defined by ____ .
What is long term weather patterns
The main difference between ocean water and lake water is that ocean water contains?
What is salt.
Which types of volcano is built by alternating layers of lava and ash flows? It can be very explosive.
Composite
When does an unstable radioactive atom decay?
When it gives off a particle or radiation
Which instrument would be used to measure wind speed?
What is an anemometer
Why do most atmospheric scientist think that natural causes are not the reason for Earth's current warming temperatures?
What is the changes are occurring more rapidly than ever before.
What carries out most of the photosynthesis in the ocean?
What is phytoplankton
Which type of volcano is found in the Hawaiian Islands with thick flowing, slow moving lava? This is the most common type of volcano on earth.
Shield
The crust, mantle and core are layers of Earth that are separated because they have different _______.
What is chemical composition
When does a high pressure system form?
When cold air sinks
What conclusions have most scientists reached when comparing temperature and carbon dioxide concentrations?
What is increasing levels of CO2 are increasing Earth's temperatures
Why will human caused changes to the ocean be hard to reverse?
What is ocean water cannot be changed.
Large projectiles thrown through the air during an eruption are called?
Volcanic bombs
How are EArth's lithosphere and asthenosphere different from on another?
What is different physical properties
What type of weather is associated with a high pressure system?
What is clear skies and mild calm weather
Automobile exhaust contains chemical compounds containing nitrogen and sulfur. What is the result when they mix with water vapor in the air?
What is acid rain.
The neritic zone is home to a large variety of ocean plants and animals. What conditions exist in this zone in order to support so many different species?
What is sunlight and a steady supply of nutrients.
Where do volcanoes come from? (three answers)
Places where the plates move apart
Hot spots
Places where the plates are moving together
Why would the composition of a meteorite resemble the Earth's interior?
What is both were formed from the same nebula, out of the same atoms
Why do hurricanes develop over oceans?
What is the Coriolis Effect
List of 3 ways that scientists measure climate change.
Tree Rings:
Ice Core Drilling:
Historical Temperature Measurements:
Changes in Glaciers and Sea Ice:
Fish living deep beneath the oceans’ surface are rarely or never displayed at seawater aquariums. Why?
What is they have adapted to intense pressures of the deep ocean that can’t be recreated in aquariums.