Engineering
What factors influence the functions of wind turbine blades?
What are lift, drag, and torque?
This is the second-innermost layer in the Earth’s core.
What is the outer core?
This is the type of boundary that moves apart from a Mid-Ocean Ridge.
What is Divergent?
Fill in the blank: The Principle of Original Horizontality states that layer must have been deposited ___________ to start.
What is horizontally?
This is what the O in LAMECOW stands for.
Fill in the blank: The _____ the blades, the more force they can generate.
What is longer?
This rock type makes up the ocean floor.
What is Basalt?
This is the type of boundary that crashes together.
What is Convergent?
These are the three ways that unconformaties can occur.
What are moving water, wind, and ice?
This is what elevation measures.
What is height from sea level?
This is the first step in the Engineering Design Loop.
What is ‘Identify the Need/Problem’?
Closest to a Mid-Ocean Ridge, you could find (younger/older), rock.
What is younger?
Fill in the blank: Convection is the circulation of material caused by differences in _______.
What is density?
Fill in the blank: ______ layers found towards the bottom, youngest layer on top
What is oldest?
These are the two types of ocean currents.
What are Surface Currents and Deep Water Currents?
Fill in the blank: Turbine blades are commonly built in a shape called an “______ design”, which gets flatter and narrower as you move towards the tip.
What is “airfoil”?
This is the scientist known for proposing the hypothesis of contential drift.
What is Alfred Wegener?
The magnetic field that surrounds the Earth is created by this layer.
What is the Outer Core?
Fill in the blank: An unconformity is a ____ __ ____
What is gap in time?
These are the two characteristics that impact motion of ocean currents.
What are temperature and salinity?
These are the four parts of a wind turbine.
What are the blades, the hub, the nacelle, and the tower?
This is the piece of evidence that was not part of the original hypothesis for Pangea.
What is mapping of the ocean floor?
This are the types of volcanoes that appear at a Convergent Continental-Oceanic boundary.
What are Continental Volcanic Arcs?
Fill in the blank: An angular unconformity is a gap in time between lower layers that have been _________ and new horizontal layers on top.
What is titled/folding?
A sea breeze occurs at what time of the day?
What is night?