Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Rocks, and Minerals
Oceanography
Meteorology
Astronomy
100
What is Seafloor Spreading?
What is when new crust is formed and old crust is moved away from the center.
100
Where do about 80% of all earthquakes occur?
What is the "Ring of Fire".
100
About how much of Earth's surface is covered by oceans?
What is 72%.
100
What is the Atmosphere almost entirely made up of?
What is Nitrogen, 78%, and Oxygen, 21%.
100
What is the order of the planets starting from closest to the sun to the furthest?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
200
Who is Harry Hess?
What is a geologist that discovered Seafloor Spreading.
200
What is the Elastic Rebound Theory?
What is explains how energy is stored in rocks.
200
What are the three major oceans?
What is the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Indian Oceans.
200
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
What is Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Statosphere, and Troposphere.
200
What is the Big Bang Theory?
What is when all matter and energy was concentrated in one small volume. (atom-sized)
300
What is Plate Tectonics?
What is the theory describing why and how continents move across the Earth's crust.
300
What is Mafic Lava?
What is forms of oceanic crust, dark colored, generally runny.
300
What are the 2 minor oceans?
What is the Arctic and the Southern Oceans.
300
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
What is the process by which the atmosphere traps infrared rays over the Earth's surface.
300
What is Geocentric?
What is "Earth-centered" model proposed by Aristotle.
400
What is the Lithosphere?
What is rigid material made from oceanic crust, continental crust, and the upper mantle.
400
How do you identify a mineral?
What is by its color, streak, and luster.
400
What are Mid-Ocean Ridges?
What is continous series of underwater mountain ranges, zone of seafloor spreading.
400
What is Ozone(O3)?
What is an oxygen molecule with 3 oxygen atoms which has the unique ability to absorb harmful Ultraviolet Radiation.
400
What is Heliocentric?
What is "Sun-Centered" model proposed by Copernicus.
500
What is the Asthenosphere?
What is slowly flowing "Plastic Rock" layer under the Lithosphere that provides the movements of plates.
500
What is Felsic Lava?
What is forms continental crust, light colored, generally thick.
500
What are Guyots?
What is flat-topped seamounts which have been eroded by waves.
500
What is Evaporation?
What is liquid water turning into water vapor and rising into the air.
500
What are solar flares?
What is sudden outward eruptions of electrically charged atomic particles.
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