Plate Tectonics
When two plates are pulled away from each other.
What is Divergent?
A rock that is formed from the cooling of magma or lava.
What is Igneous?
What makes up 78% of the atmosphere?
What is Nitrogen?
What is the science of weather called?
What is meteorology?
Groundwater is formed.
What is recharge?
When two plates slide past one another.
What is transform?
This type of rock is formed from layers of sediment deposited on the earths surface.
What is Sedimentary?
What makes up the other 22%?
What is oxygen (22%)/other gasses (1%)?
A storm with violent wind that has a circular motion.
What is a hurricane?
How much of the worlds fresh water does groundwater take up?
What is 30%?
When two plates collide or run into one another.
What is convergent?
This type of rock is formed from existing rock that is changed or transformed by extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
How many layers are in the atmosphere?
What is 5?
Frozen rain or ice that fall in pellets from cumulonimbus clouds.
What is hail?
Reduced water supply, water quality concerns, etc. are all issues regarding...
What is groundwater depletion?
This type of plate movement caused the San Andreas Fault.
What is transform?
True or False, the rock cycle never ends.
True, the rock cycle has no beginning and no end.
Name the layers of the atmosphere from the most inner layer to the most outer.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere?
What is the scale that classifies tornadoes?
What is Fujita?
The highest source of groundwater is...
What is Precipitation?
The Supercontinent Pangea was broken apart by...
What is wind, water, and ice?
How are the layers of the atmosphere determined?
What is temperature?
What is the scale that classifies hurricanes?
What is Saffir-Simpson?
What is the #1 use of groundwater?
What is agriculture/irrigation?