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the fault in which the upper wall has slipped downward
what is a normal fault
100
This breeze happens at night
What is a land breeze?
100
a machine that measures how powerful an arthquake is
What is a richter scale?
100
this breeze happens during the day
What is a sea breeze?
100
these fast flowing narrow currents are found in the atmosphere
What is a jet stream?
200
these winds also called trades are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics
What are trade winds
200
a belt of calms and light baffling winds north of the equator
What are doldrums
200
wind that blows from the west to the east
What is a westerlie?
200
wind that blows from the east
What is easterlie?
200
earth surface of the earthquake
what is the epicenter?
300
The fault in which the hanging wall has moved upward relative to the footwall
what is a reverse fault?
300
this effect happens because of earth's rotation
What is the coriolis effect?
300
the volume of air in one particular place
What is air pressure?
300
a region where the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the planet is greater than its surrounding environment.
What is a high pressure area?
300
a region where the atmospheric pressure at sea level is lower than that of surrounding locations.
What is a low pressure area?
400
a severe tropical storm with torrential rain and extremely strong winds.
What is a hurricane?
400
heat is needed for this process to happen
What is evaporation?
400
an extremely destructive funnel-shaped rotating column of air that passes in a narrow path over land
What is a tornado
400
a whirling mass of something, especially water or air
What is a vortex
400
it is the point below the Earth's surface where seismic waves originate during an earthquake.
What is focus?
500
a type of elastic wave, called seismic waves in seismology
What is p wave
500
secondary waves that vibrate in a transverse direction (from side and side as well as up and down).
What is a s wave?
500
this fault has a side to side motion
What is a strike slip fault?
500
97% of earths water is saltwater
How much of earth's water is salt water?
500
Most of earth's freshwater is found in ice caps
where is most of earth's freshwater?