Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
weather
hydrogeology
Astronomy
100
process that occurs at mid-ocean ridge, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge
What is sea-floor spreading
100
sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust
What is an Earthquake
100
rain, snow, sleet, and hail
What is 4 types of precipitation
100
The state or quality of a material or membrane that causes it to allow liquids or gases to pass through it.
What is permeability
100
an collection of stars, dust, and gases
What is a galaxy
200
two plates move away from each other
What is divergent boundary
200
seismic wave or compression wave that travels through gases, elastic solids (like clay) and liquid (like water)
What is a P wave
200
geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere
What is the 4 types of Earth's spheres
200
Water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
What is groundwater
200
way of describing the position of an object or place, perhaps on the surface of the earth..
What is absolute location
300
two plates move toward each other
What is a convergent boundary
300
A numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake
What is the richter scale?
300
A storm with thunder and lightning and typically also heavy rain or hail.
What is a thunderstorm
300
A body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater
What is an aquifer
300
A faint band of light crossing the night sky, made up of vast numbers of faint stars forming the bulk of the galaxy
What is the Milky Way
400
continental plates are pulling apart from one another
What is a rift valley
400
A twelve-point scale for expressing the local intensity of an earthquake.
What is an Mercalli scale
400
rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud
What is a tornado
400
The level below which the ground is saturated with water.
What is an water table
400
A small very dense star that is typically the size of a planet.
What is an white dwarf
500
science and study of the causes of, and relative motions of, Earth's lithospheric plates.
What is Theory of Plate Tectonics
500
slowest wave
What is a surface wave
500
say indoors and stay away from windows as large limbs or hail may break windows and cause shattered glass.
What are safety precautions taken during a thunderstorm
500
Water that collects on the surface of the ground.
What is surface water
500
A region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape.
What is a black hole
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