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Enormous moving piece of the Earth’s lithosphere
What are tectonic plates?
The 3 parts of the Earth (IN ORDER)
What is the Crust, Mantle, and Core?
It has many other names like the Process of Precipitation, Convectional Precipitation, and the Water Cycle
What is the Hydrologic Cycle?
Giant waves in the ocean caused by earthquakes
What is a tsunami?
Guam's national bird
What is the Guam Rail (Ko'ko)?
The number of years Mr. Whatley taught
What is 5?
water held in the pores of rocks below the soil
What is ground water?
the man who came up with the Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The 2 types of Landforms
What are Oceanic and Continental?
The 3 Types of Volcanoes
What are Active, Dormant, and Extinct Volcanoes?
The two causes for Earth's season
What is the its tilt & revolution?
The atmosphere of earth is made up less than 0.0001% of this element, commonly used in party balloons.
What is Helium?
liquid rock from within the Earth that flows out of volcanoes
What is magma?
The four gas planets
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
The 3 Motions of the Ocean
What are Currents, Waves, and Tides?
The Destructive results of an Earthquake
What are Landslides, displacement of land, fires caused by broken gas lines, and destruction of buildings?
The 3 types of distances
What is Linear, Time, and Psychological?
The figure of speech is being used in this sentence: "Tony tied the table to the tub today."
What is Alliteration?
a hypothesis suggesting that the earth was once a supercontinent that divided and slowly “drifted” apart over millions of years
What is Continental Drift?
All 4 'Spheres Bros
What is Atmosphere, Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, and Biosphere?
The 4 categories of Relief
What are Plains, Hills, Plateaus, and Mountains?
The 4 unique movements of the plates
What is Divergent, Subduction, Collision, and Transform Boundaries?
The 3 types of map projections
What are Planar, Conical, and Compromise?
The equation, a squared + b squared = c squared, has a very unique name
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
areas drained by a major river and its tributaries
What is a Drainage Basin?
These materials make up the core of the Earth
What are Iron and Nickel?
The longest continuous mountain range in the world
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
Volcanic activity isn't always bad, in fact these two things highlights some of its benefits
What are volcanic ash produces fertile soil and heat generated by magma can be tapped for energy?
The 5 Weather Extremes
What are Hurricanes/Typhoons, Tornadoes, Blizzard, Drought, and Flood?
The middle name of John F. Kennedy
What is Fitzgerald?