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Plates
Seasons
Earthquakes
Earth and Temperature
Miscellaneous
100
What is the name of the theory that states the earth's crust is broken into pieces and floats around on the earth
What is Plate Tectonics
100
Season that is occuring when Earth is tilted towards the sun
What is Summer
100
Boundary that tends to have the most and largest magnitude earthquakes
What is a convergent boundary
100
How the sun's energy hits the equator
What is directly or straight
100
Term for a half of the Earth
What is hemisphere
200
What type of boundary occurs where two plates collide
What is a convergent boundary
200
Amount of time it takes the Earth to complete a full revolution
What is a year
200
Name of the world that has the most earthquake activity
What is the Ring of Fire
200
the uneven spreading of the sun's energy throughout the world
What is differential heating
200
One of the two layers of the earth involved in the movement of plates. (Not crust, mantle, core)
What is Lithosphere or Asthenosphere
300
Boundary where two plates split apart
What is a divergent boundary
300
Day of the year where there is the fewest hours of daylight...Not a date(Ex. May 10)
What is Winter Solstice
300
Created by an earthquake in the ocean
What is a tsunami
300
A measure of the sun's energy trapped by the Earth
What is insolation
300
The rising of hot magma, its cooling near the surface, and it sinking again
What is convection current
400
boundary where two plates slide past each other
What is transform fault boundary
400
Name of the two days of the year where there is 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night
What is Equinoxes (Vernal and Autumn)
400
One of two areas in the world that have experienced recent earthquake and tsunami disasters
What is Japan or Indonesia(Thailand)
400
The sun's energy
What is solar radiation
400
The name of the 810 mile transform fault located in California
What is San Andreas Fault
500
Name of the supercontinent that existed in Earth's early history
What is Pangea
500
Tilt of the Earth's axis
What is 23.4 degrees (23.5 is also acceptable)
500
Scale that measures the magnitude of an earthquake
What is seismograph or richter scale
500
reflective power of a surface
What is albedo
500
Name of an area where a less dense plate sinks under the more dense plate
What is a subduction zone