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Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Rocks & Minerals
Oceanography
Meteorology
Astronomy
100
The man who discovered seafloor spreading...
Who is Harry Hess?
100
Rock formed by the cooling of lava.
What is igneous rock?
100
Extremely flat areas that cover half of the deep ocean basin.
What are Abyssal Plains?
100
The thunderstorm cloud
Cumulonimbus
100
The largest planet in the solar system
What is Jupiter?
200
Super Continent believed to have existed before the continents as we know it.
What is Pangea?
200
Instrument used to measure earthquakes.
What is a Seismograph?
200
Continueous series of underwater mountain ranges.
What is a mid ocean ridge????
200
The scale that measures tornadoes according to their wind speed
What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale?
200
This planet has the thickest atmosphere
What is Venus?
300
Rigid material made from oceanic crust
What is the Litchosphere?
300
These types of crystals form beneath the crust
What are intrusive crystals?
300
Diving vessel lowered on cables.
What is a bathysphere?
300
The most dangerous factor created by a Hurricane
What is storm surge?
300
These are the 2 primary gases in the Sun
What is Hydrogen and Helium?
400
The man who came up with the continental drift theory
Who is Alfred Wagner
400
meaning "Ropy", formed when mafic lava cools.
What is Pahoehoe?
400
78% of dissolved solids in the ocean are made up of these elements.
What is sodium and chlorine?
400
The most damaging form of weather
What is a Tornado?
400
This is the order of the planets in distance from the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
500
The super ocean. (Existed during when Pangea did)
What is Panthallasa?
500
jagged chunks, formed when mafic lava cools RAPIDLY
What is AA? (ah-ah)
500
3.5 % of ocean water is this
What are dissolved solids?
500
These are the 4 main cloud types in order from height (Lowest to highest)
What is Stratus, Alto-Cumulus, Cumulus, Cirrus
500
The brightest star that we can see
What is Sirius?