What is the lava moves more fluidly than high viscosity lava
100
The difference between a hurricane and a typhoon is
What is location (North Atlantic and Indian Ocean)
200
The supercontinent that separated because of plate movement
What is PANGEA
200
type of fault found at convergent boundaries
What is reverse/thrust fault
200
the first wave felt from an earthquake
What is a p wave (primary)
200
The two major types of lava flows categorized with smooth flow or rough choppy lava flow
What is pahoehoe and aa
200
How does a tornado form
What is cold front from Canada and warm front from Gulf of Mexico, updraft raises the swirling winds
300
What are the three major plate boundaries
What is transform, divergent, and convergent
300
The area in which an earthquake takes place on a reverse fault
What is subduction zone
300
The most destructive seismic wave
What are surface waves
300
the two ways a volcano can form
What is over a hot spot (Hawaii) or on a convergent boundary at a subduction zone (ring of fire)
300
How does a hurricane function
What is rapid descending cold air and warm air rising, eye is the center and no wind there, eyewall is the strangest part of a hurricane, gains strength over warm water
400
The commonly accepted forms of evidence that PANGEA existed
What are fossil records that match on different continents, the continents fit together, and physical earth structures
400
Explain the elastic rebound theory
What is rock going through stress-strain, bending, snapping under pressure, and going back to original shape in a different location
400
The intensity scale is based on
What is damage and human reaction/death
400
basalt, andesite, and rhyolite differ because of their varying differences in.... (B--> A --> R)
What is silica content, water content, viscosity, and melting temperature
400
What is an El Nino
What is the warm water from Australia and the cold water from Peru switch and creating extreme weather patterns
500
An example on Earth of each boundary type
What is Himalayas/Rockies (convergent), East African Rift?Mid-Atlantic ridge (divergent), San Andreas fault (transform)
500
the p wave is categorized by this motion and the s wave is characterized by this motion
What is compression and extension (p) and snake like movements in the earth (s)
500
Describe a tsunami generation and how it approaches a coast line
What is when the continental crust snaps over the oceanic crust send a wall of water upwards, the wave propagates in all directions, fastest in open ocean and slows down when reaching shore, the wave height increases as it approaches the shoreline
500
How does the oceanic crust moving under the continental crust create a volcano
What is boils water, which reduces magma and loosens it, and the magma breaches the surface and creates a volcano
500
What is the Coriolis effect
What is the Earth's rotation effects the wind patterns on earth