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Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Astronomy
Weather
Weathering, Erosion
100
Happens when two tectonic plates collide.
What is a convergent boundary?
100
The point under the Earth's surface where an earthquake first occurs.
What is a focus?
100
The closest planet to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
100
Rain, Sleet, Snow, and Hail.
What are types of precipitation?
100
Happens when land is weathered by wind, water, ice, gravity, etc.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
Occurs when two tectonic plates separate.
What is a divergent boundary?
200
The point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus.
What is the epicenter?
200
A theory where the Earth is the center of the universe.
What is geocentric?
200
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
200
Happens when land is weathered by acid rain, air, chemicals, etc.
What is chemical weathering?
300
Happens when two tectonic plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
300
The waves of an earthquake that are first to be detected.
What are P waves?
300
A theory where the Sun is the center of the universe.
What is heliocentric?
300
The most powerful storm on Earth.
What is a hurricane?
300
The process by which soil and sediments are transported by wind, water, ice, etc.
What is erosion?
400
Happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate and the denser, oceanic plate, sinks.
What is a subduction zone?
400
Waves that shear rock side to side.
What are S waves?
400
Occurs when the moon comes in between of the Sun and the Earth.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
400
Occurs when a cold air mass goes under a warm air mass and pushes it up.
What is a cold front?
400
A fan-shaped mass of material deposited at the mouth of a stream.
What is a delta?
500
A mid-ocean ridge forms when this boundary occurs.
What is a divergent boundary?
500
The scale used to measure the strength of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
500
Occurs when the Earth comes in between the Sun and the moon.
What is a Lunar Eclipse?
500
Occurs when a warm air mass moves over a cold air mass and gradually replaces it.
What is a warm front?
500
This delta was formed by the Nile river.
What is the Nile Delta?