What are things in an experiment that don't change?
100
Panthalassa is this.
What is the Super Ocean surrounding Pangaea 200 million years ago?
100
72% of the Earth is covered in this.
What is the ocean?
100
The layers of the Atmosphere in order.
What are the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, and Thermosphere?
100
All physical existence: matter, energy, space, and time.
What is the Universe?
200
This is the crust.
What is a layer of the Earth that consists of solid dirt, rocks, and sand?
200
This person was a geologist who became a navy sub commander in WWII. While commander he discovered mid-ocean ridges on the ocean floor. Later, took core samples of mid ocean ridges and discovered seafloor spreading.
Who is Harry Hess?
200
This is a newly designated ocean surrounding Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean?
200
The layer of the atmosphere that contains Earth's satellites.
What is the Thermosphere?
200
The largest planet, with the Big Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
300
This is the inner core
What is a layer of the Earth that is solid and metal?
300
The magnetic polarities match on both sides of the ocean ridges.
What are Magnetic Reversals?
300
A metal sphere which is lowered on cables to the deep ocean floor.
What is a bathysphere?
300
Hurricanes in the Atlantic ocean and Typhoons in the Pacific.
What are two names for hurricanes and where do these names apply?
300
Called the Blue Planet due to methane gas, the coldest planet.
What is Uranus?
400
It is 23.5 degrees on its axis.
What is the angle the Earth is tilted at on what?
400
The rigid crust and upper mantle that sits on top of the asthenosphere.
What is the Lithosphere?
400
Depth = 1/2 (1500 m/s) t
What is the formula for depth?
400
The most dangerous effect, causing floods, wind damage, and flooding inland due to rain.
What is Storm Surge?
400
This planet has a horizontal rotation.
What is Neptune?
500
This is the order of the Scientific Method.
What is 1. State the Problem, 2. Gather Information, 3. Form a Hypothesis, 4. Test the Hypothesis, 5. State a Conclusion?
500
The molten material below the Lithosphere which causes plates to move.
What is the Asthenosphere?
500
Jacques Picard and Don Walsh were the only people.
Who are the first and only people to travel to the single deepest location on Earth?
500
Two cold air masses "sandwiching" a warm air mass, producing the most violent storms.
What is an occluded front?
500
The part of the moon that is the lowlands, made of darker cooled lava.