Astronomy
Plate Tectonics
Weather
The Atmosphere
Shaping Earth's Surface
100
Name of our galaxy
What is the Milky Way?
100
This is formed when an oceanic and continental plate collide
What is an ocean trench and volcanoes?
100
A weather alert that is issued when severe weather is occurring that poses a threat to life or property.
What is a severe weather warning?
100
The transfer of heat through a fluid material like air in the atmosphere.
What is convection?
100
Where do we find the Earth's youngest rocks?
What is at mid-ocean ridges?
200
Order of object in the universe from smallest to largest (include stars, moons, planets, solar systems, galaxies, asteroids)
What is asteroid, moon, planet, stars, solar systems, galaxies, universe?
200
Plates move away from each other
What is a divergent boundary?
200
Type of weather system shown:
What is a low pressure system?
200
Transfer of energy from air molecules bumping into one another
What is conduction?
200
The types of processes that reshape the Earth's surface.
What are constructive (deposition) & destructive (erosion & weathering)?
300
The change in frequency of a wave based on a moving object.
What is the Doppler Effect?
300
This forms when two oceanic plates diverge
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
300
Type of air mass that is frigid and travels southward from Canada through the midwest of the US.
What is continental polar?
300
Layer nearest the Earth's surface where most weather occurs
What is the troposphere?
300
In areas where freezing and thawing occur frequently, rocks will weather rapidly because of this.
What is the expansion of freezing water?
400
Explains how the universe began and is continuing to expand evidenced by red shift and the doppler effect
What is the Big Bang Theory?
400
This is why nobody accepted Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift
What is he couldn't explain why or how the continents had drifted?
400
Temperature at which the air is saturated with water vapor and condensation is forming on surfaces.
What is the dew point?
400
layer that contains the highest concentration of ozone
What is the stratosphere?
400
Planting vegetation will decrease this destructive force
What is erosion?
500
These are three pieces of evidence that support the Big Bang Theory.
What is red shift, cosmic background radiation, and the abundance of hydrogen and helium in the universe.
500
Puzzle like fit, similar rock structures, plant and animal fossils, glacial deposits, and climate change
What is evidence of Continental Drift?
500
The process, and elements, that cause rain to form.
What is rising warm air that cools and condenses into clouds which become heavy and water droplets fall through warm layers of air as rain?
500
Indicates good weather because sinking air makes it difficult for clouds to form
What are areas of high pressure?
500
This part of the Earth's structure is composed of the crust and upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
600
Andromeda, a neighboring galaxy is moving toward us. Observers see Andromeda as this color through a telescope.
What is blue?
600
Plates collide with each other
What is a convergent boundary?
600
What type of air mass would form over the Pacific ocean near Hawaii?
What is maritime tropical?
600
current, short-term conditions of the atmosphere
What is weather?
600
This California landmark is caused by a transform plate boundary and is getting wider and deeper with each earthquake
What is the San Andreas fault?
700
The evidence that all objects in the universe are moving away and expanding.
What is Red Shift?
700
Plates slide past each other
What is a transform boundary?
700
These connect equal points of temperature on a weather map.
What are isotherms?
700
Tectonic plates are moved and help create surface features because of these in the Earth's mantle.
What are convection currents?
800
List the color of stars from hottest to coolest
What is blue, white, green, yellow, orange, red?
800
Mid-ocean ridges and seafloor spreading occur at this type of boundary. It is also the boundary type that most affects the country of Iceland.
What is a divergent boundary?
800
The type of weather pattern that is shown
What is a high-pressure system?
800
Forces that cause abrasion
What are wind, moving water, and glaciers?
900
The Himalayan Mountains were formed at this type of boundary
What is a continental-continental convergent boundary?
900
This is the reason that hurricanes are considered more destructive that tornadoes, even though wind speeds are similar
What is the associated flooding, tidal waves, and heavy rain of a hurricane storm?
900
Biggest difference between mechanical and chemical weathering
What is the way it does (chemical) or does not (mechanical) affect the chemical composition of the rock?
1000
This is believed to be the mechanism that drives the idea of plate tectonics
What are convection currents in the Earth's mantle?
1000
most destructive tornado on the Fujita scale
What is an F5?
1000
Animal activity, tree roots/root wedging, ice wedging
What are types of mechanical weathering?
1100
Lithospheric plates ride on this
What is the asthenosphere?
1100
Weather alert issued when conditions are right for severe weather, but is not yet occurring
What is a severe weather watch?
1200
Evidence of Wegener's hypothesis on continental drift
What are fossils (glossopteris & mesosaurus), puzzle fit, similar rock structures, glacial deposits, climate evidence
1200
Shows the weather conditions for a very specific location
What is a weather station model?