Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Rocks and Minerals
Oceanography
Meteorology
Astronomy
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Who found the theory of Continental Drift in 1912?
Alfred Wegener
100
Where do earthquakes normally occur?
Fault Zones
100
What percent of Earth's water is found in oceans?
97%
100
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
The process by which the atmosphere traps infrared rays over the Earth's surface
100
What are the names of all eight of the planets in order?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
200
What is Seafloor Spreading?
When the sea floor moves to a ridge and deep-sea trenches and is then subducted and moves back into the mantle
200
What is the Ring of Fire?
Volcanic activity along the edge of the Pacific Ocean
200
Sound waves that measure depth of ocean floor are?
SONAR
200
How can you tell what type of wind is blowing?
From wherever the direction the wind is blowing is the name of the wind.
200
What is the Sun's average rotation?
27 days
300
What ocean is increasing in size and which ocean is increasing in size?
The Atlantic Ocean is increasing and the Pacific Ocean is shrinking.
300
Which type of volcanoes (Composite, Shield or Cinder Cone) are the largest in height?
Composite
300
The amount of dissolved solids in ocean water is what?
Salinity
300
What is freezing rain?
it falls to the Earth as a "supercooled" liquid and freezes upon impact with the ground
300
What is the difference between Geocentric and Heliocentric?
Geocentric is Earth centered and Heliocentric is Sun centered
400
What two theories is Plate Tectonics combined of?
Continental Drift and Sea-Floor Spreading
400
The color of the mineral in powder form is known as what?
Streak
400
What is the Global Conveyer Belt?
A deep ocean current that circles the entire planet.
400
What are the three major storm types?
Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, and Hurricanes
400
What do Terrestrial and Jovian mean?
Inner and Outer Planets
500
What is the Super Continent that supports Alfred Wegener's theory?
Pangea
500
What type of rocks undergoes weathering and erosion to turn into sediment?
Igneous
500
What is the average amount of saltinity on the oceans surface?
34 ppt
500
What weather instrument measure air pressure in millibars?
Barometer
500
What are meteroids?
small pieces of matter from passing comets or asteroi collisions
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