Show:
Rock and Roll
Earth's Structure
The Crust
Hydrosphere
Atmosphere
100
Natural, mineral formations, that make up most of the earth's crust
What are rocks
100
The 4 layers of the earth
What is the Inner core, outer core, mantle and crust! UHH!
100
Volcanoes that are in a long period of inactivity
What are Dormant Volcanoes
100
Moisture content in the air
What is Humidity
100
The gases that surround our planet
What is the atmosphere
200
What are the 3 types of rock?
Sedimentary, Igneous, Metamorphic
200
How many revolutions does the earth make around the sun every year?
What is One
200
The surface of the earth, just above the "focus" of an earthquake
What is the epicenter
200
Contains the larges amount of the earth's freshwater
What are glaciers and icebergs
200
the instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer
300
Scientists who study rocks
What are Geologists
300
Made up of liquid iron and nickel
What is the outer core
300
Magma that spills out during an eruption
What is lava?
300
The formation where water is absorbed into the layers of rock, sand and soil and is stored
What is an aquifer?
300
The layer of the layer of the atmosphere where meteors vaporize
What is the thermosphere
400
Rocks that are formed under the lithosphere, by melting of old rocks, forming magma, cooling, and becoming solid again.
What are igneous rocks
400
The crust and upper mantle formed together.
What is the Lithosphere
400
The speleothems that form on the floor of a cave and grow upward.
What are stalagmites
400
The process where plants give off their water into the atmosphere
What is transpiration
400
What layer of the homosphere contains the "weather layer"
What is the troposphere
500
Sedimentary rocks that are formed by plants or animals decomposing and cementing together in water or muddy areas.
What is Organic Sedimentary rock
500
All the continents together in one "super continent"
What is Pangea
500
Nonexplosive mounds with gentle, sloping sides
What are shield volcanoes?
500
Evaporation, Condensation, precipitation, and accumulation
What is the hydrologic cycle?
500
The inventor of the barometer
Whois Evangelista Torricelli