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Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Rocks, and Minerals
Oceanography
Meterology
Astronomy
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In regions called Mid-ocean ridges, new crust is moved away from the center. What is this process called?
What is seafloor spreading?
100
80% of all earthquakes occur here.
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
100
the reason it is difficult to map the ocean floor.
What is pressure?
100
fraction of solar radiation reflected by a perticular surface.
What is albedo?
100
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
What is the terrestrial planets?
200
The geologist that discovered sea-floor spreading.
What is Harry Hess?
200
number of earthquakes strong enough to be felt each year.
What is 150,000?
200
the two submersibles.
What is bathyscape and bathysphere?
200
the most reflective albedo
What is snow
200
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
What is the jovian planets?
300
Theory describing why and how continents moved across the earth's crusts.
What is plate tectonics?
300
measures intensity,the kim of damage done and peoples reactions to it.
What is the modified mercalli scale?
300
a raised wedge of sediment formed at the base of the continental slope. Forms from falling sediment.
What is continental rise?
300
the four fronts.
What is warm cold stationary occluded?
300
"earth centered" model proposed by Aristole.
What is the geocentric model?
400
rigid material made from oceanic crust, continental crust, and thde upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
400
two types of lava
What is mafic and felsic?
400
flat topped seamounts which have been eroded by waves.
What is guyots?
400
measures air pressure in millibars?
What is barometer?
400
"sun centered" model proposed by Copernicus.
What is the heliocentric model?
500
Greek word that means tectonics.
What is tektonikos?
500
3 chatacteristics all minerals must have to be a mineral.
What is solid, organic, naturally occuring, fixed chemical composition, and orderly crystaline structure.
500
the deflection of earth's winds and currents due to earth's rotation.
What is the coriolis effect?
500
measures relative humidity.
What is hygrometer?
500
orbits the sun, become round due to the force of its own gravity, dominate the neighborhood around its orbit.
What is three features a planet must have?