Earthquakes
Solar Nebular Theory
Plate Tectonics
Rock Cycle
Defining Matter
100
What you are experiencing if the ground is shaking.
What happens during an earthquake?
100
A pulling force that acts over extremely great distances.
What is gravity?
100
Determines that the continents do not stay in the same positions relative to each other.
What is satellite data?
100
It is used to organize Earth's 4.55 billion year history.
What is the geologic time scale?
100
Anything that has mass and takes up space?
What is matter?
200
Earthquakes have these effects.
What has short-term and long-term effects?
200
What draws particles of interstellar dust together to form stars and planets.
What is gravity?
200
Map analysis of the locations of volcanoes and earthquakes provide evidence that the earth is divided into section that we call ____________.
What are tectonic plates?
200
Throughout Delaware, the metamorphic and igneous rock are covered with __________.
What are sediments?
200
Amount of mass that takes up a given space.
What is density?
300
This is energy transformed into kinetic energy, and takes the form of waves in the earthquake.
What is elastic potential energy. (EPE)
300
This process is overwhelmingly long. Hint: Think of formation and in what takes place in galaxies.
What is the process of star and solar system formation?
300
The movement of plates has provided evidence that__________________.
What is the movement of plates that hasn't always been the same?
300
Epochs cover the ___________ period of time and eons cover the ____________ period of time.
What is the shortest period of time? What is the longest period of time?
300
Amount of matter in something.
What is mass?
400
When the energy stored in a rock is suddenly released, and intense vibrations called seismic waves are generated.
What is elastic potential energy? (EPE)
400
Our knowledge of astronomy improves when _______________ improves.
What is technology for observation?
400
Magnetic orientation of rock along the ocean floor provides evidence of ________ _____ ____________.
What is sea floor spreading?
400
Where are most of Delaware's metamorphic and igneous rocks located?
What is the most northern part of New Castle County?
400
Amount of space something occupies.
What is volume?
500
Sudden shaking of the earth as rocks rupture due to stress.
What is an earthquake?
500
The level of acceptance of scientific hypothesis depends directly on _________________________.
What is quantity and quality of the supporting evidence?
500
Scientists found evidence of sea floor spreading also by using the ___________________________.
What is evaluation of the age of rocks?
500
Divided up into a series of units: eons, eras, periods, and epochs.
What is geologic time scale?
500
~~DAILY DOUBLE!~~ (CHOOSE HOW MUCH YOU WANT TO WAGER! HINT: THERE ARE TWO ANSWERS TO THIS QUESTIONS, SO THINK VERY CAREFULLY...) An _______ _________ does NOT depend on how much matter is being considered. An _______ _________ DOES depend on how much matter is being considered.
What is Intrinsic Property? What is Extrinsic Property?
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