Atmosphere/Weather
The 4 layers of the atmosphere
What are ... Troposhere,Stratosphere,Mesophere,Exosphere
Difference in weather and climate
What is ... Weather refers to short-term changes in the atmosphere,
Climate describes what the weather is like over a long period of time in a specific area.
Describe a building that pancakes
What are ... collapses refers to a structural collapse where the collapse occurs from the top down as upper floors settle into lower floors of a building
The 3 types of volcanoes
What are ... composite, cinder, shield
The 3 types of Convergent boundaries
What are ... Oceanic-oceanic, Oceanic-Continental, Continental-continental
Difference between cold front and warm front
What is ... Cold Front- When a colder airmass displaces a warmer airmass.
Warm Front: When a warmer airmass displaces a colder airmass.
The 3 kinds of weather satellite imagery
What are... infrared, visible-light, or water-vapor
Term used to identify solid group taking the properties of liquid
What is ... Liquefaction
An area of the Earth's mantle from which hot plumes rise upward, forming volcanoes on the overlying crust.
What is a... hotspot
Device that maps the ocean floor
(10 extra points to explain how it works)
What is a... Magnetometer
( By measuring the effects buried materials have upon the geomagnetic field, magnetometers allow archeologists to “see” into the ground and identify what lies beneath without having to excavate.)
The four particles in the atmosphere
What is ... Nitrogen, Oxygen,Argon,Carbon dioxide
The characteristics of a supercell
What is ... strong updrafts going 240 km/h sever storm that can last for hours can spawn tornadoes
Describe S-waves and P-waves used to determine the properties of Earths core
What are ... P waves can travel through liquid and solids and gases, while S waves only travel through solids. Scientists use this information to help them determine the structure of Earth.
Volcanic rock fragment irrespective of a grain size produce during a an explosive eruptions
What is ... tephra
Rocks,fossils and climate provide evidence of continental drift
What are ... the ancient fossils of the same species of extinct plants and animals are found in rocks of the same age but are on continents that are now widely separated
Coriolis effect
What is ... circulating air that deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
The 3 main stages of a tropical cyclone
What are... tropical depression, tropical storm, and hurricane.
A sudden vertical displacement of the ocean can cause a
What is ... Tsunami
a large igneous body that has concealed from magma underground
What is... plutons
Explain how the continents adjoined as pangea
what is ... the continents widend and spreaded at divergent boundaries over time as the landmasses collide in the limited space remaining, a Pangea-sized supercontinent forms.
The sources/foundation for Earths thermal energy
What are ... leftover heat from collisions that formed the planet early in the development of the solar system
Describe The Koppen Classification System
(10 extra points if you can name the 5 different groups)
What is ... climates divided into five main climate groups
A (tropical), B (arid), C (temperate), D (continental), and E (polar)
Device scientist use to predict earthquakes
What is ... Seismometers
Describe the anatomy of a volcanoes
What are the ... cone,crater the vent, conduit pipe the magma chamber and caldera
The scientist who came up with the continental landmasses were drifting across the Earth, sometimes plowing through oceans and into each other.
Who is ... Alfred Lothar Wegener