The Awesome Atmosphere
This is the ability to do work.
What is energy?
The vibrations or shaking of the Earth's crust caused by rapid movement of rocks in the crust.
What is an earthquake?
These three geologic features are proof that the plates have moved?
What is faulting, folding, and tilting?
Common Earth materials that are important to our everyday lives. They are also the building blocks of rocks.
What are minerals?
What is weather?
This is the measurement of the average kinetic energy of particles.
What is temperature?
The point on Earth's surface directly above the earthquake.
What is an epicenter?
The driving force behind plate movements caused by the uneven heating of mantle fluids of the Earth's interior.
What causes plate movement?
These five things are the properties of minerals.
What is color, streak, luster, hardness, and breakage pattern?
This instrument that measures the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
This phenomena occurs when insolation passes through, trapping heat that is being re-radiated by the Earth's surface.
What is the "greenhouse" effect?
After an earthquake, these waves arrives first as they are faster.
What are P-waves?
A mirrored image on either sides of the ridge.
What is a magnetic polarity pattern?
______________ are formed from the melting and solidification of magma/lava. ____________ form from any rock type due to extreme heat and pressure.
What are igneous and metamorphic rocks?
These four factors affect the weather.
What is temperature, humidity, air pressure, and wind?
Using alternative energy, carpooling, walking, riding bicycles are all examples of this.
What are ways to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the Earth's atmosphere?
These waves are unable to travel through the liquid outer core of the Earth.
What are S-waves?
Evidence suggests that all continents were joined in one giant "supercontinent" 200 million years ago.
What is Pangaea?
____________, ________________, and __________ are the key features of igneous rocks.
What are glassy texture, interlocking crystals, and vesicular gas pockets?
This will help determine wind speed on a map.
What is the distance between isobars?
How much insolation reaches Earth's surface is referred to as this.
What is atmospheric transparency?
This is the study of where earthquakes may occur.
What is plate tectonics?
Name two pieces of evidence that indicate Pangaea was real.
Fossils of tropical plants are found in Antarctica and Alaska; fossils of land animals in deep oceans; shorelines of some present-day continents match
These are the seven items related to the process of making sedimentary rocks.
What are sediments, weathering, erosion, deposition, burial, compaction, and cementation?
Name and describe three different types of precipitation.
Possible answers include: rain, sleet, snow, hail, fireballs (jk!)