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Unit 1: Intro To Earth Science
Unit 2: Geology
Unit 3: Oceanography
Unit 4: Meterology
Unit 5: Astronomy
100
The difference in a collection of data
What is variance
100
super continent from over 200 million years ago
What is Pangaea
100
mini submarine lowered on cables to the ocean floor
What is bathysphere
100
surface layer, very warm contains all weather
What is troposhpere
100
universe is expanding as all galaxies are moving apart
What is hubble law
200
The four branches of the earth are
What is geology, astronomy, meteorology and oceanography
200
Super ocean from 200 millions years ago
What is Panthalassa
200
a flat extension of the continent found under water
What is continental shelf
200
man made chemicals found in refrigarators
What is cfcs
200
most people prior to only a few centuries ago believed earth was the center of the solar system
What is geocentric
300
the shape of the earth
What is oblate spheroid
300
magnetic polarities match on both sides of the mid ocean ridges
What is magnetic reversals
300
97 percent of the earth water is found in
What is oceans
300
forms over the ocean and in the tropics
What is maritime tropical
300
smallest planet
What is mercury
400
made up of metals and is solid
What is inner core
400
earthquakes that occur in the middle of plates and not at plate boundaries
What is intraplate earthquakes
400
least salty ocean
What is artic
400
cold air mass moving into a hot air mass
What is cold front
400
form from impacts of meteors
What is craters
500
layers of the earth(in order)
What is crust, mantle, outer core , inner core
500
locating the epicenter
What is triangulation
500
currents help bring nutrients from below to the surface, they regulate heat and weather and transport life around the world
What is effects of currents
500
two cold air masses moving into a hot air mass
What is occluded front
500
red planet
What is mars