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plate tectonics
earthquakes, volcanoes, rocks and minerals
oceanography
meteorology
astronomy
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Theory that the Earth's continents have moved throughout its history.
What is Continental Drift?
100
the zone of volcanic activity along the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
What is ring of fire?
100
the 2 minor oceans.
What is Artic and Southern oceans?
100
water droplets and dust in the atmosphere reflect and bend rays of light.
What is scattering?
100
everything that exists physically. (all matter, energy, space, and time.)
What is universe?
200
established theory of continental drift in 1912 based on two oberservations
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
Two types of volcanic lava.
What is Mafic and Felsic?
200
the 3 major oceans.
What is pacific, atlantic, and indian?
200
% of Solar Energy that reaches Earth and is absorbed.
What is 70%?
200
sudden outward eruption of electrically charged atomic particles.
What is solar flares?
300
Name of the single landmass formed when all the continents were together.
What is Pangea?
300
a device used to measure earthquakes.
What is seismograph?
300
self-propelled mini submarine.
What is bathyscaph?
300
70% of the Greenhouse Effect.
What is Water Vapor?
300
orbits a planet.
What is a moon?
400
the process of one lithospheric plate moving under another plate.
What is subduction?
400
Mineral break along a smooth, flat surface.
What is cleavage?
400
Sound waves travel downward, bounce off the ocean floor and return to the surface to reveal the depth of the water.
What is SONAR?
400
The apparent curvature of global winds and anything that moves freely across the Earth's surface, due to rotation of the Earth on its axis.
What is Coriollis Effect?
400
When a Mars-sized body struck the Earth early in the history of the solar system.
What is the Giant Impact Hypothesis?
500
Name of the one huge ocean that surrounded Pangea.
What is Panthallasa?
500
Rules for being a mineral.
What is solid, inorganic, naturally occuring, fixed chemical composition, and orderly crystalline structure?
500
0.5(time)xVelocity
What is the SONAR Equation?
500
marg's REDHEADED girlfriends name.
OH WAIT, HE DOESNT HAVE ONE!!! and never willl. muahahahahahhaha. ;)
500
The composition of the sun.
What is 94% hydrogen, 6% helieum, and 0.13% other materials?