Natural Hazards
What is Mass Wasting?
What is the downhill movement of earth material caused by gravity.
What is Inertia?
What is basically an object’s stubbornness
What is the outermost layer called?
What is the Crust.
What is the tool used to measure the average kinetic energy of particles in a substance?
What is a thermometer.
What is Plate Tectonics?
What is the theory in which the Earth is made up of slabs of plates that make up the Earth.
What is the phenomenon that is a rise in seawater level specifically caused by a hurricane or major storm?
What is a storm surge.
What is the amount of matter an object contains, often measured in kilograms?
What is Mass.
How old is the Earth?
What is 4.5 Billion Years Old.
What is the primary form of energy for any object in motion?
What is Kinetic Energy
What is the Plate Tectonic movements are generated by this process in the Earth's mantle?
What are convection currents.
What is the area that is home to roughly 75% of the world's active volcanoes and 90% of its earthquakes?
What is The Pacific Ring of Fire.
What is the distance between two corresponding points on consecutive waves, such as crest to crest?
What is wavelength.
What is the moon that is thought to have formed shortly after Earth's birth when a Mars-sized body, often called by this name, collided with the young planet?
What is Theia.
What is the theoretical state reached when all molecular motion stops completely, representing zero on the Kelvin scale?
What is absolute zero.
What is the process that occurs at a convergent boundary when one tectonic plate sinks beneath another and melts back into the mantle?
What is Subduction.
What is the specific term for a volcanic mudflow or debris flow that occurs when heat from an eruption melts snow and glaciers on a peak?
What is a lahar.
What is the force if you apply a force of 10 Newtons to push a box a distance of 4 meters? How many Joules of work have you completed?
What is 40 joules
What is the upper layer of the Earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, in which there is relatively low resistance to plastic flow, and convection is thought to occur?
What is the asthenosphere.
What is this type of clothing mechanic called when you wear layers of clothing to trap air, which acts as a type of material to keep body heat in?
What is an insulator.
What is the approximate, surprisingly slow rate at which tectonic plates move per year (give a range in cm)?
What is 2-15 centimeters per year.
While the eye is calm, the highest wind speeds and heaviest rains in a hurricane are found here.
What is the Eyewall.
What is this 4-letter property associated with the angular momentum of a subatomic particle?
What is Spin.
What is the process by which gravity pulls together dust and rocks into a larger and larger mass?
What is accretion.
While conduction is the transfer of heat by direct contact, this type of heat transfer occurs in fluids (liquids or gases) due to density differences and the upward movement of warmer, less-dense particles.
What is convection.
What are the similar fossils of this reptile, found on the coasts of South America and Africa, that provided evidence for continental drift?
What is a Mesosaurus.