Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Rocks and Minerals
Oceanography
Meteorology
Astronomy
100
Four examples of Continental Drift.
What is Similarity in shapes, similarity in fossils of coastlines, similarity in rock layers, similarity in ancient climates.
100
Four types of mineral tests.
What is color, streak, luster, and hardness.
100
Deflection of Earth's winds and currents due to Earth's rotation.
What is Coriolis Effect.
100
Measures wind direction.
What is Wind Vane.
100
Two main gases that make up the sun.
What is Helium and Hydrogen.
200
Surrounded by one huge ocean, the meaning is, "One Sea."
What is Panthallasa.
200
Two types of lava, the first forms oceanic crust and the second forming continental crust.
What is First: Mafic / Second: Felsic.
200
Define the Global Conveyor Belt.
What is a copnnected deep ocean current that circles the entire planet.
200
Regions where two or more air masses collide.
What is Fronts.
200
List the three reasons a planet must be a planet.
What is 1. Orbit the Sun. 2. Become round due to force of gravity. 3. Dominate the neighborhood around its orbit.
300
All continents once formed a single landmass.
What is Pangea.
300
Zone of volcanic activity along edge of Pacific Ocean.
What is Ring of Fire.
300
Amount of dissolved solids in ocean water.
What is Salinity.
300
Three main cloud types.
What is Cirrus, Cumulus, and Stratus.
300
Name the inner planets (terrestrial) and outer planets (jovian)
What is inner: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. outer: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
400
Man that established Continental Drift.
What is Alfred Wegner.
400
Device used to measure earthquakes.
What is Seismographs.
400
Long and narrow regions which are the deepest features on Earth.
What is Trenches.
400
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is Humidity.
400
The solar system model proposed by Corpernius and is known to be correct after reseach. "Sun Centered"
What is Heliocentric Model.
500
Theory that Earth's continents have moved throughout its history.
What is Continental Drift.
500
How energy is found in rocks, rocks can bend until strength is exceeded.
What is Elastic Rebound Theory.
500
Three major oceans and two minor oceans.
What is Major: Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian. Minor: Arctic and Southern.
500
Process that atmosphere traps infrared rays over the Earth's surface.
What is The Green House Effect.
500
All matter and energy was concentrated in one small volume, an explosion propelled all matter and expanded the universe.
What is The Big Bang Theory.
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