Earth's Systems
Earth's History
Waves
Force and Motion
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100
This process forms metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
100
This is the order of geologic time in order from longest to shortest.
What is eon, era, period, epoch?
100
The time it takes a wavelength to pass a fixed point.
What is a wave period?
100
These forces have a net force of zero.
What are balanced forces?
100
This type of volcano is highly explosive but does not erupt frequently.
What is a stratovolcano?
200
This is the solid part of the upper mantle.
What is asthenosphere?
200
This person developed the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
The more energy a wave carries causes the amplitude will do this.
What is become larger?
200
The distance between the starting and ending points, as well as the direction of travel.
What is displacement?
200
Spring tides will occur during these moon phases.
What are new and full moons?
300
When a piece of oceanic crust goes below continental crust, it is called...
What is subduction?
300
When looking at a picture of rock layers, you could determine this characteristic.
What is relative age?
300
This is the order of eletromagnetic waves in order from shortest wavelength to longest wavelength.
What is gamma rays, x-rays, UV rays, visible light, infrared rays, microwaves, radio waves.
300
On a speed/time graph, a horizontal line indicates the speed is
What is constant?
300
This is associated with violent weather and will cause the temperature to drop after it passes.
What is a cold front?
400
This force is associated with a divergent boundary.
What is tension?
400
This states that physical, chemical, and biological laws operate today also operated in the past.
What is uniformitarianism?
400
These waves cause paritcles in the rock to move back and forth in the same direction the wave is traveling.
What are P waves?
400
If a 75 g ball is thrown with a force of 300 N, what is it's acceleration?
What is 4 m/s/s?
400
Large circular-moving current systems that are influenced by wind and the Coriolis Effect.
What are gyres?
500
Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains were pushed up when the North American and African continents collided in a process known as
What is folding?
500
Ancient layered mats formed by cyanobacteria.
What is stromatolites?
500
Seismic waves speed up when they pass through the bottom of the crust and enter the upper mantle. This boundary goes by this name.
What is MOHO?
500
Walking is an example of this law.
What is Newton's third law?
500
These are three of the four major components of soil.
What are inorganic matter, water, air, and organic matter?
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