Rock of Ages
Wet & Wild
Far from Home
So True Too
Spin Cycle
100
Its volcanic
What is extrusive igneous rock?
100
Incoming Solar radiation
What is insolation?
100
The diameter an object appears to have depending on its distance from the observer.
What is Apparent Diameter?
100
The deflection of moving air and water due to the rotation of the earth.
What is The Coriolis Effect?
100
The carrying away of sediment by wind, water or ice
What is Erosion?
200
Rock distorted by heat and pressure through contact with volcanoes and lava
What is contact metamorphism?
200
The circulation of materials due to differing densities of fluids.
What is concection?
200
The theory that the Universe began 10-17 billion years ago with a gigantic explosion
What is the Big Bang?
200
An isoline on a topographic map.
What is a Contour Line?
200
A nearly level plain near a stream that overflows after spring snowmelt or rain
What is a Flood Plain?
300
Rocks made from pieces of sediments stuck together
What is clastic sedimentary rock?
300
A colorless, odorless gas given off when fuel is burned
What is Carbon Dioxide?
300
A closed curve around two fixed points. The described path of planets in their orbits
What is an Ellipse?
300
Transfer of heat atom to atom through vibration of atoms close together
What is Conduction?
300
The combined processes of evaporation and the transpiration of moisture off the leaves of trees
What is Evapirotranspiration?
400
The age of rocks in relation to the age of other rocks
What is Relative Dating?
400
A body of air with similar temperature, pressure and moisture content
What is an Air Mass?
400
The distance between foci divided by the length of major axis
What is the Eccentricity of an Orbit?
400
The balance of opposing forces or actions. Balance with change.
What is Dynamic Equilibrium?
400
The boundary of an advancing mass of cold air into a mass of warm air, usually bringing thunderstorms.
What is a Cold front?
500
The actual age of a rock
What is absolute age?
500
The temperature where relative humidity becomes 100% and the air is completely saturated with water vapor.
What is Dew point?
500
A chart showing the wavelengths of different types of transverse wave energy
What is the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
500
The border between two tectonic plates moving together, as in the collision of India and China creating the Himalayan mountains.
What is a Convergence Plate Boundary?
500
The liquid part of the mantle just below the lithosphere
What is the Asthenosphere?
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