Rock Cycles
What is a rock cycle
What is a description of transitions through geologic time among the three main rock types
Definition of climate change
What is long term shifts in temperature and weather.
The most common place to find a volcano.
Where is the ocean floor.
definition of meteorology
the study of weather and its patterns
The most polluting energy resource.
What is coal, which is responsible for 25 deaths per terawatt.
The kind of rock that forms from erosion.
What is sedimentary rock.
The 'discoverer' of climate change.
Who is Guy Callender.
The temperature of liquid magma
What is around 1500 Celsius, or 2700 Fahrenheit
The first layer of the atmosphere
What is the Troposphere
Definition of fossil fuels.
What is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources
The 3 main rock types
What is Sedimentary, Igneous, and Metamorphic
The name of the protective atmosphere that protects the earth from the radiation of space.
What is the O-zone layer.
The cause of volcanoes.
What is subduction, which allows water from the subducting plate to be driven upward, off the subducting plate and into the mantle wedge.
The reason fog occurs.
What is water condensing close to the ground, producing clouds of small droplets.
3 different kinds of renewable energy
What is Hydro, Solar, Wind, Tidal, Geothermal, or Biomass.
What causes the change of shape in rock?
Heat, pressure from tectonic shifts, and melting.
The theorized cause of the hole in the O-zone layer.
What is human activities such as greenhouse gas production.
The tool that scientist use to detect small changes in volcanoes.
What is a gravity wave?
What is a wave moving through a stable layer of the atmosphere.
Large natural petroleum traps.
What is an Anticline, which are shaped like upside down bowls.
The type of force that erosion is classified as.
What is destructive force.
3 countries that produce the most greenhouse gases
What is the worlds largest volcano, and when did it erupt last?
What is Mauna Loa, and it erupted on November 27th.
The characteristics of a Virga cloud.
What are individual domes with flat bases and puffy tops
The cause of Petroleum traps.
What is a rising salt dome, which often creates Anticline.