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Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Rocks and Minerals
Oceanography
Meteorology
Astronomy
100
This is what is formed underwater when new crust is formed and old crust is moved away from the center
What are Mid-Ocean Ridges
100
This is the area where 80% of earthquakes occur
What is the ring of fire
100
These are the 3 major oceans
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian
100
This gas makes up 70% of the greenhouse gases
What is water vapor
100
This is the theory that about 14 billion years ago all matter and energy was concentrated in one small energy
What is the Big Bang Theory
200
This is the theory describing why and how continents move across the Earth's surface
What is plate tectonics
200
These are waves that travel through the surface of the earth
What are seismic waves
200
These are the 2 minor oceans
What are the Arctic and Southern
200
This is the idea that an increase in man-made CO2 is causing a rapid increase in the global temperature
What is global warming duhh
200
These are the four inner planets in order from the sun out and their nickname as a whole
What is terrestial, and Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
300
This is rigid material made from oceanic crust, continental crust, and the upper mantle
What is lithosphere
300
This measures the intensity of an earthquake
What is the modified mercalli scale
300
This is the equation to find depth of the water at any given point
What is depth=1/2(time)(volume)
300
This is a cool breeze that blows from the ocean to the coast
What is a sea breeze
300
These are smooth dark areas of solidified lava on the moon
What is maria
400
This is the slowly flowing "plastic rock" layer underlying the lithosphere
What is athenosphere
400
This is a structure which moves magma onto the surface of the earth
What is a volcano
400
Name 4 types of underwater features
What are continental margin, deep ocean basinm continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise, trench, abyssal plains, mid-ocean ridges, seamounts, guyots, or volcanic islands
400
This is the region where two or more air masses collide
What is a front
400
These are the outer planets in order and their nickname as a whole
What is Jovian, and Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
500
This is the transfer of heat through movement of heated material
What is convection
500
A mineral has to have these five characteristics
1) solid 2)inorganic 3)naturally occuring 4)has a fixed chemical composition 5)has an orderly crystalline structure
500
This is the deflection of the earth's winds and currents due to earth rotation
What is the Coriolis Effect
500
These are the four main types of air masses
What is maritime tropical (mT), maritime polar (mP), continental tropical (cT), continental polar (cP)
500
This is the hypothesis that the moon formed when a mars-sized body struck the Earth early in the history of the solar system
What is the Giant-Impact hypothesis