The rocky core of the Earth is made mainly of which two metals and what unique property do they have?
What are Iron and Nickel? They are magnetic.
100
A plane flies 500 km in 2 hours. What is the plane's velocity.
250 km/hr
100
The point underground where the rocks snap/break and create energy causing an earthquake.
What is the focus?
100
Older rock layers are located lower or below younger rock layers. This idea is known as the Principle of _________.
What is superposition?
100
Pangaea formed during which era and broke up during which era?
What is Paleozoic and Mesozoic?
200
The top part of Earth's mantle on which the crust "floats".
What is the lithosphere?
200
What are three ways an object can accelerate?
What are speeding up, slowing down, or changing direction?
200
The type of force associated with divergent boundaries causing earthquakes.
What is a tension force?
200
What is meant by the term paleoclimate data in reference to
Continental Drift Theory?
What is the fact that glacier markings have been found in warm areas of the earth such as Africa and S. America while coal has been found in cold climate areas such as Northern N. America and northern Europe?
200
The following were created by what types of tectonic plate interactions:
Andes Mountains
Himalayan Mountains
Aleutian Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Oceanic and Land
Land and Land
Oceanic and Oceanic
Hot Spot
300
This is the layer of the mantle in which magma rises and falls causing convection currents.
What is the aesthenosphere?
300
A dog runs 10 m east, 40 m west, 30 m south, and finally 60 m north. What is the dog's displacement and distance run?
Displacement = 30 m west and 30 m north
Distance = 140 m
300
This area results from the converging of an oceanic plate and a continental plate.
What is a subduction zone?
300
What are the four stages of coal formation in order from youngest to oldest?
What are peat, lignite, bituminous, and anthracite
300
Sound waves are examples of ___________ waves also called ___________ waves while light waves are examples of ___________ waves also called ___________ waves.
Earth's crust is not a solid piece of land but instead is composed of individual __________ plates. There are said to be how many major plates that make up the crust?
Tectonic Seven
400
A car traveling at 30 m/sec comes to a stop in 6 seconds. What is the car's acceleration?
-5 m/sec/sec
400
This mountain range is a result of two continental plates colliding creating areas of large earthquakes.
What is the Himalayan Range?
400
Give the stages in order of a large mass star life cycle.
(There are 7 stages)
What are nebula, protostar, main sequence, super giant, supernova, black hole, neutron star?
400
The moon has no atmosphere and therefore is uninhabitable. Give three factors that are due to the lack of atmosphere.
drastic temperature changes, bombardment by space objects, no breathable air
500
What are the four layers of Earth and give approximate thickness of each.
1,800 miles 1,400 miles 25 miles 1,500 miles
Inner Core 1,500 miles
Outer Core 1,400 miles
Mantle 1,800 miles
Crust 25 miles
500
Newton's Second Law of Motion shows a relationship between what variables? How are they related?
acceleration, force, and mass
acceleration and force directly related
acceleration and mass indirectly related
500
Where is the largest volcano in our solar system found and what is it called?
Where is Mars? Olympus Mons
500
Name the three types of plate boundaries and the three forces associated with each.
What are transform - shear
convergent - compression
divergent - tension
500
Who said that the orbit of the Earth and other planets was elliptical and who said the solar system was heliocentric?