What are the two coordinates used to describe location?
What is longitude and latitude
100
What is the name of the boundary that results in two plates colliding?
What is convergent boundary
200
Which layer of the Earth is liquid and spins to create a magnetic field?
What is outer core
200
What theory uses the idea of plate tectonics in explaining why Pangaea no longer exists?
What is continental drift
200
Which layer of the atmosphere contains the greenhouse gases?
What is the troposphere
200
Tropical rainforests, savannas, and deserts are examples of which climate?
What is low-latitude climates
200
When two continental plates divide what is formed?
What is a rift valley
300
What two things explain why the inner core of the Earth is solid, and the densest layer of the Earth?
What is high pressure and high temperature
300
What is sometimes found in rocks that can help geologists to determine the age of the rock?
What is index fossils
300
Name three human activities that help strengthen the earth's natural greenhouse effect.
What is cars, factories, and heating homes
300
Long term changes to climate are mostly influenced by which factor?
What is ocean currents
300
What two things are formed when an oceanic plate collides with another oceanic plate?
What is volcanic island and trench
400
Which rock type forms under conditions of extreme temperature and pressure change?
What is metamorphic
400
What terms describes the force behind plate motion which deals with magma rising while cooler material sinks?
What is convection cells or convection currents
400
What is the main difference between the greenhouse effect and the ozone layer?
What is the greenhouse effect keeps the earth warmer by absorbing the sun's heat and the ozone layer filters out incoming ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
400
What is the name of a geographical area of distinctive plant and animal groups which are adapted to a particular environment?
What is a biome
400
What is it called when one plate is pushed beneath another plate?
What is subduction
500
Describe the texture and crystal size of an igneous rock that cools rapidly at the Earth's surface.
What is smooth texture and small crystals
500
What is the theory that says chunks of the Earth's crust (plates) float on the surface of the mantle and change both position and size over time?
What is plate tectonics
500
What six things make up greenhouse gases?
What is argon, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapor, and ozone