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A description of how our solar system formed in four steps,
1. Nebula Collapsing
2. Flattening
3. Fusion
4. Accretion
What is the Solar Nebula Theory?
Where nuclear fusion occurs
What is the sun's core?
The ocean currents redistribute heat from where to where? What does this do to climates nearby?
the equator to the poles making a more mild climate for the nearby landmasses
Water heats up and cools down more slowly than land because of this trait
What is a high specific heat?
Name one way water is an agent of energy transfer
Teacher's choice
Describing how "squished" an ellipse is
What is eccentricity?
The type of radiation blocked by our ozone layer
What is Ultraviolet?
The type of wave from an earthquake that comes first
What are P Waves?
Something that does not occur at transform plate boundaries
What are volcanoes?
Something that occurs at continental-continental plate boundaries
What are mountain ranges?
The moon phases when there is a high tidal range
What is new moon and full moon?
The gasses that increase in the atmosphere after a volcanic eruption
What are Sulfur Dioxide, Carbon Dioxide, and Water Vapor?
The East African Rift Valley is on a _____________ plate boundary.
What is divergent?
A factor that can accelerate the process of soil formation
1. Volcanic Ash Deposition
OR
2. High rates of weathering
Igneous rocks form from
What is magma cooling?
The law of periods
What is Kepler's 3rd Law?
When heat is trapped in an area/atmosphere
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Rocks near the ____________ weather more quickly.
What is the equator?
The San Andreas Fault is on a ______________ plate boundary.
Transform
Name one impact of volcanic activity on the hydrosphere
Acid rain
The two elements we discuss when talking about nuclear fusion
What are hydrogen and helium?
What are mountains, trenches, volcanoes, subduction zones, etc.?
Earth's plates move due to
What are convection currents in the mantle?
What happens when two oceanic plates collide?
What is a subduction zone?
Volcanoes and Earthquakes happen on
What are tectonic plate boundaries?