Plate Teconics and Earth's Layers
The outermost solid layer of the Earth.
What is the Crust
Weather pattern that yields the slowest chemical weathering.
What is cold and dry?
A boundary between two different air masses?
What is a front?
The spinning of Earth on its axis.
What is rotation?
Theory that suggests the universe began from a single point.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
A place where two tectonic plates collide.
What is a convergent Boundary?
Type of weathering where rocks change chemically.
What is chemical weathering?
Describes the direction of spin of an anticyclone in the southern hemisphere.
What is counterclockwise?
Length of time for Earth to revolve once around the Sun?
What is one year (356.25 days)?
The idea that the universe will collapse back upon itself.
What is the Big Crunch?
Movement of heat through a fluid like the mantle.
What is convection?
Type of soil texture that contains a good mixture of sand, silt, clay, and organic material.
What is a Loam soil?
This is a large batch of air that has about the same temperature and humidity.
What is an air mass?
The element whose atoms are fused together to fuel the Sun.
What is hydrogen?
This theory suggests that the universe has no beginning and no end.
What is the Steady State Theory?
S-waves are slower than P-Waves and will not flow through which material?
What is liquid?
Percentage of space for air and water in a healthy soil.
What is 50%?
What is lightning?
When the Moon passes through Earth's shadow.
What is a Lunar Eclipse?
A theory where the universe goes through cycles of expansion and contraction.
What is the Oscillating Universe theory?
This is what it is called when the Earth's north and south poles switch places.
What is reversed polarity?
Soil type found in dry regions (like in the western US). It is typically high in calcium.
What is a Pedocal?
A sudden, intense line of storms along a cold front.
What is a squall line?
Region of complete shadow during an eclipse.
What is the Umbra?
This is the original point of the Universe according to the Big Bang Theory.
What is the singularity?