PLATE TECTONICS
The names of the four layers of the earth.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle and crust?
The atmospheric layer we live in.
What is the troposphere?
The current condition of the atmosphere.
What is weather?
The 2 types of air mass terms that mean cold or warm.
What are Polar and Tropical?
Name of the landmass before the continents drifted apart.
What is pangaea?
This is what causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents?
This gas makes up 21% of the atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
Scientists that study weather.
What are meteorologists?
Air moves from areas of _____ pressure to areas of _____ pressure.
What is high to low?
This can occur at any plate boundary to release stress.
What is an earthquake?
The Appalachian and Himalayan Mountains were formed by which type of boundary?
What is convergent?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!! An excess of this gas contributes the most to global warming.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
Weather over a place for a long time.
What is climate?
The name for a cold air mass replacing a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur along the ___________.
What is "Ring of Fire"?
This is created when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.
What is a subduction zone.
The atmospheric layer composed mostly of electrically charged particles.
What is the ionosphere?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
Violent storms (thunderstorms or/and tornadoes) created by fast moving _____.
What are cold fronts?
When two objects touch and cause a transfer of heat energy, this is an example of _______ .
What is conduction?
The African Rift Valley was formed this way.
What is a divergent boundary?
The thickest/tallest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
A Norwegian meteorologist named these after WW I armies.
What is air fronts?
This is an example of a _______:
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What is a warm front?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!! The material that is produced by explosive volcanoes.
What is pyroclastic material?