Our Dynamic Earth
Waves
Our Blue Planet
Weather
This and That
100
The current in the mantle, fueled by temperature, that causes the plates to move
What is convection current?
100
Sound Waves
What is a compression wave?
100
Percentage of the earth covered in water
What is about 70%?
100
Anemometer
What instrument is used to measure wind speed?
100
Type of plants that are relatively small and live in moist environments
What are non-vascular plants?
200
Weathering and erosion create this
What is/are sediments?
200
Light Waves
What is a transverse wave?
200
Causes of tides
What are the moon's gravity and the rotation of the earth?
200
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
200
Lobsters, crabs, snails, and beetles
What are examples of invertebrates?
300
The type of plates and boundaries that create mountains
What are continental plates and convergent boundaries?
300
The measurement between peak to peak in a transverse wave
What is wavelength?
300
Most life in the ocean can be found in this geographic region
What is the continental shelf?
300
Cold air mass moving in under a warm air mass
What is a cold front?
300
The man who developed the theory of continental drift
Who is Albert Wegener?
400
Heat and pressure create this type of rock
What is metamorphic?
400
Causes of ocean waves
What is the wind?
400
The deepest part of the crust
What is the Mariana Trench (or deep ocean trench)?
400
High pressure zones bring this
Fair weather or good weather
400
The term used to describe the cloudiness of water
What is turbidity?
500
The Ring of Fire is caused by these types of zones
What are subduction zones?
500
The cause of the pitch of sound waves?
What is frequency?
500
Changes in these things cause deep ocean currents
What are temperature, salinity and pressure? (two out of three will be a correct answer)
500
A falling barometer brings this kind of weather
Stormy weather
500
The man who gave the rainbow seven colors instead of 6
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
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