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Solar System
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
Oceanography
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location of the asteroid belt
What is between Mars and Jupiter?
100
Scale used to determine the magnitude of an earthquake
What is the Richter Scale?
100
name of the circle of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean
What is Ring of Fire?
100
scientist who proposed seafloor spreading theory
What is Harry Hess
100
a subduction zone at the bottom of the ocean
What is a trench?
200
Dwarf planet in the asteroid belt
What is Ceres?
200
The scale of measurement used to determine the intensity of an earthquake
What is the Mercalli Scale
200
An American volcano which erupted explosively in 1980.
What is Mt. St. Helens?
200
continents at one time long ago connected into a single land mass called ____________________
What is Pangaea?
200
deepest valley in the ocean
What is Marianas Trench
300
planet that has a nearly 90 degree tilt of its axis possibly caused by collision
What is Uranus?
300
kind of plate boundary that causes earthquakes along the San Andreas fault
What is transform boundary?
300
largest intrusive igneous rock bodies which are dome-like in shape
What is a batholith?
300
plate boundary at the mid-Atlantic ridge
What is divergent boundary
300
bottom dwelling plants and animals
What is benthos
400
the tide which occurs when the Sun Moon and Earth are line up in a line.
What is a Spring Tide.
400
the Himilaya mountains occur at reverse fault which occurs as what kind of plate boundary
What is convergent plate boundary?
400
a volcano with gently sloping sides
What is shield volcano?
400
name of a divergent boundary on land (rather than under the sea) in Africa
What is Great Rift Valley
400
current that forms due to a mass of water becoming more salty and then moving under another mass of water
What is density current
500
when the Sun is directly over the equator
What is an equinox?
500
continental drift is caused by ______________.
What is seafloor spreading
500
bits of rock and solid lava thrown into the sky by an erupting volcano
What is tephra?
500
plastic like layer on which the lithosphere floats
What is asthenosphere
500
manner in which bacteria that live near hot water vents at the bottom of the ocean make food without any sunlight
What is chemosynthesis