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Meteorology
Atmosphere
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Chemistry
100
weather
What are short term variations in the weather?
100
air mass modification
What is the exchange of heat or moisture with the surface over which an air mass travels icalled?
100
matching coastlines
What caused early mapmakers to thing that the continents had moved?
100
focus
Where does an earthquake originate at?
100
atoms
What are the basic building blocks of matter?
200
Earth's rotation
What is causes the Coriolis effect?
200
nitrogen and oxygen
What are the most abundant gases in the atmosphere?
200
younger crust
What lies next to the ocean ridge old crust or new crust?
200
mass
What part of a seismometer does not move?
200
protons and neutrons
What is found in the nucleus of an atom?
300
low pressure systems
What type of pressure system produced cloudy, rainy weather?
300
temperature inversions
What acts as a lid or trap, worsening air-pollution problems?
300
ocean ridges
What features are found at divergent boundaries?
300
Richter Scale
Which numerical scale is used to indicate the magnitude of an earthquake?
400
isopleths
What are the lines on a map that connect points of equal or constant values?
400
coalescence
What is it called when cloud droplets collide to form larger droplets?
400
Mantle
Where do convection currents take place?
400
Strike-slip
What fault produced the San Andreas Fault?
400
combination of two or more substances that retain thier identity
What is mixture?
500
station model
What is a record of weather data for a particular site at a particualr time?
500
water cycle
What is the movement of water between the atmosphere and Earth's surface called?
500
continental-continental plate collisions
What produces tall mountain ranges?
500
reverse
Which fault forms as a result of horizontal compression?
500
densely packed particles that take the shape of their container
What are liquids?