Oceanography
These are formed where ocean water meets magma, creating pockets of heated water.
What is Hydrothermal vents?
The hardest natural substance on Earth
What is Diamonds?
These two igneous rocks make up the continental and oceanic crust.
What is Basalt and granite?
The Polish-born astronomer proposed that the planets orbit the sun, and was later proved right?
What is Copernicus?
The name of the world’s largest island?
What is Greenland?
This suffix is used to describe the zones of the ocean, with its descending prefixes epi-, meso-, bathy-, abyssal-, and hadal-.
What is Pelagic?
The fastest bird?
What is Peregrine Falcon?
This principle states that younger rock layers will always appear on top of older rock layers.
What is Superposition?
The only planet in our solar system to rotate clockwise?
What is Venus?
The name of the third-longest river in the world
What is Yangtze River?
The most massive mountain range actually exists on the sea floor, with these “ridges” occurring at divergent plate boundaries.
What is Mid-ocean ridges?
The tallest type of grass?
What is Bamboo?
This “drift” refers to movement of sediment along a shoreline caused by waves.
What is Longshore drift?
This planet have Phonos and Deimos as planets in the solar system
What is Mars?
The strait that separates Russia from Alaska
What is the Bering Strait?
This system of deep ocean currents is caused by differences in the water’s density between global regions.
What is Thermohaline circulation?
The largest artery in the human body
What is aorta?
These rocks are made up of rock fragments produced and ejected by a volcanic eruption.
What is Pyroclasts?
The year the space shuttle Columbia disaster took place?
What is 2003?
The U.S.volcano erupted causing catastrophic damage in Washington state in 1980?
What is Mt. St Helens?
This zone is the part of a body of water closest to the shore.
What is Littoral zone?
The disease stems from the medieval term that means ‘bad air’?
What is Malaria?
The place would you find all of the following officially named rocks? Adirondack, Barnacle Bill, Bathurst Inlet, Big Joe.
What is Mars?
The unlucky Apollo lunar landing was canceled after an oxygen tank exploded?
What is Apollo 13?
The capital of the country of Georgia
What is Tbilisi?