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Composition of Earth
Surface Processes on Earth
The Atmosphere and the Oceans
The Dynamic Earth
Beyond Earth
100
Light colored rocks.
What are felsic?
100
Ridges consisting of till deposited by glaciers.
What are moraines?
100
The study of atmospheric phenomena.
What is meteorology?
100
At the top of a volcano, around the vent, is a bowl shaped depression called...
What is a crater?
100
The inner four planets..
What are terrestrial planets?
200
Dark colored rock.
What are mafic?
200
A high land area that separates one watershed from another.
What is a divide?
200
The current state of the atmosphere.
What is weather?
200
Volcanic craters are usually less than 1 km in diameter. Larger depressions are called this...
What is a caldera?
200
The outer four planets..
What are the gas planets?
300
Diamonds are a valuable mineral found in rare ultramafic rocks known as....
What are kimberlites?
300
When water spills over the sides of a stream's banks onto the adjacent land.
What is a flood?
300
Long term variations in weather for a particular area.
What is climate?
300
A mountain with broad gently sloping sides and a nearly circular base.
What is a sheild volcano?
300
Name the plantes in order starting with the closest to the Sun...
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto?
400
The continuous changing and remaking of rock.
What is the rock cycle?
400
A bend or curve in a stream channel caused by moving water.
What is a meander?
400
Moving particle such as air are deflected to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere.
What is the coriolis effect?
400
The type of volcano that Mount St. Helens is..
What is a composite volcano?
400
Small icy bodies that have highly eccentric orbits around the Sun.
What are comets?
500
The term that describes igneous rocks that crystallize inside the earth.
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
500
The triangular deposit that forms where a stream enters a large body of water.
What is a delta?
500
Narrow bands of fast, high-altitude, westerly winds that flow at speeds of up to 185 km/hr at elevations of about 10 -12 km.
What is the jet stream?
500
The three major types of magma.
What basaltic, andesitic, and rhyolitic?
500
About how long would it would take to travel around the circumference of the Sun if your were in a military jet at a speed of 2000 mph.
What is about 66 days? (The Sun is huge!!!)