the man that came up with the idea of continental drift.
who is Alfred Wegner
100
Magama that has erupted onto the Earths surface.
What is Lava?
100
These are the 3 major ocean.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian
100
This is the study of weather.
What is Meterology?
100
These are the terrestrial planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
200
this is when one plate becomes heavier than the other and goes under neath.
What is subduction
200
This is the point within the Earth where faulting begins.
What is Focus
200
This is the diving vessel that was lowered into the water on cables.
What is the Bathysphere?
200
This is the exact amount of vapor in the air and this is the persentage of the total amount in the air.
What is Absolute Humidity and Reletive Humidity?
200
These are the Jovian planets
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
300
This is the name for the supercontinent, before the continents spred apart.
What is Pangea
300
This is the name of the Minerals hardness scale that goes from 1-10.
What is Mohs?
300
This is a flat toped semount that has been eroded by waves.
What is a Guyot?
300
These are the 3 main cloud types.
What is Cirrus, Cumulus, and Stratus
300
This is what the sun is made mostly of.
What is Hydrogen and Helium.
400
This is when new crust is formed and old crust is moved away from the Mid-ocean ridge.
What is Seafloor spreding?
400
these are waves that travel through the surface or interior of the Earth, These are the 2 types of waves.
What is Seismic Waves; Body waves, Surface waves.
400
The deflection of Earth's wind and currents due to Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
400
This is the process by which the atmoshpere traps infared rays over the earth's surface.
What is the Green House Effect?
400
These are the rules you must follow to be a planet.
What is Orbit the sun, Become round due to force of its own gravity, and dominate the neighborhood around its orbit. (Pluto does not)
500
These are the 3 types of boundries. The first 2 plates collide; C-C, C-O, O-O. The Second 2 plates move apart from each other. The third is when 2 plates grind past each other.
What is Convergent, Divergent, and Transform Boundries.
500
These are the 5 rules all minerals must be!
What is Solid, Enorganic, Naturaly occuring, Fixed chemical Composition, and Has an orderly Crystaline Structure?
500
These are the 3 types of waves and how they break.
What is Surging Greakers- waves that roll into the shore, Plunging Breakers- Waves curl and break, Spilling Breakers- Waves that break far from shore.
500
These are the layers of the atmoshere and what is special about them.
What is Troposphere- contains all weather, Statosphere- contains Ozone layer, Mesosphere- destroys metears, Thermosphere- contains satelites.
500
These are the steps to the Giant impact Hypotheseis about how the moon formed.
What is Fragments from the impact joined to form the moon. Densest materials in moon move to the center and form core. Outer surface cools forming a thick, solid crust over molten rock.