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Type of front where air flows from both sides and comes together, are parallel to each other and does not move
What is a STATIONARY FRONT
100
The total number of neutrons & protons in the nucleus of an atom.
What is MASS NUMBER or ATOMIC MASS NUMBER
100
Scattered landmasses on Earth merged in to a continent during this period.
What is PERMIAN
100
Name of the sea on the eastern side of Pangaea.
What is the TETHYS SEA
100
The location where pillow lava forms.
What is a MID-OCEAN RIDGE
200
Is a boundary that separates air masses of different densities
What is a FRONT
200
This is a sedimentary rock that is made of rounded fragments.
What is CONGLOMERATE
200
Period is sometimes called the "Age of Fish"
What is DEVONIAN
200
Boundary where major mountains belts are located along.
What is CONVERGENT
200
Location where the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
What is the FOCUS
300
Is an area where an air mass acquires its properties
What is a SOURCE REGION
300
Are the air bubbles that form as lava solidifies.
What are VESICLES
300
Period when the trilobite was the most common invertebrate
What is CAMBRIAN
300
Two plates that slide past each other horizontally.
What is TRANSFORM
300
Magma that is rich in magnesium and iron.
What is MAFIC
400
Type of air mass that brings warm, moist, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean
What is MARITIME TROPICAL
400
Type of bonding that brings together two nonmetals.
What is COVALENT
400
Percentage of marine organisms that died at the end of the Permian Period
What is 90%
400
Is what causes the denser plate to subduct and create a trench.
What is SLAB PULL
400
Is determined by the arrival times of the P-waves and S-waves at several seismograph stations.
What is the EPICENTER
500
Name of the science that studies ice and snow.
What is CRYOSPHERE
500
Is an example of a foliated metamorphic rock.
What is SCHIST or SLATE
500
The gradual development of new organisms from pre-existing organisms.
What is EVOLUTION
500
Three plates on the western edge of the Pacific Plate.
What is the EURASIAN, PHILIPPINE, and AUSTRALIAN
500
Pyroclastic material that is less than .25 mm in diameter.
What is VOLCANIC DUST