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What is the San Andreas Fault?
An example of a transform boundary.
100
What is the focus?
Where the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
100
What is an aquifer?
The name for the body of rock that stores groundwater.
100
What is a barometer?
You measure atmospheric pressure with one.
100
What is 8 minutes?
How long it takes light from the sun to reach the Earth.
200
What is Continental Drift?
Wegner's theory that the continents move.
200
What is the epicenter?
The spot on the Earth's surface above the focus of an earthquake.
200
What is water vapor?
Along with carbon dioxide, this is one of the most abundant compounds in the atmosphere.
200
What is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
The largest ocean current in the world.
200
What is how far light can travel in 1 year?
Nearly 6 trillion miles.
300
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
An active zone of volcano's in the Pacific Ocean
300
What is compression?
Another name for "P" waves.
300
What is "nimbo-" or "-nimbus"?
Adding one of these to a cloud name means that it contains rain.
300
What is a monsoon?
A seasonal wind that blows inland in summer and out to sea in winter.
300
What is a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
A plot of a stars luminosity vs. its temperature.
400
What is tectonic plates..
Modern climates in continents around the world is a result of these moving.
400
What is shear?
Another name for "S" waves
400
What is in the clouds.
Where hail forms
400
What is stalagmite?
A calcite formation found on the ground in caves.
400
What is 13.8 billion years ago?
How long ago was the "Big Bang"?
500
What is the discovery of sea-floor spreading.
The most conclusive proof that Wegner was right about Continental Drift.
500
What is the distance to an earthquake's epicenter?
To find this, scientists used to take information from at least 3 stations and find where data intersected on a map.
500
What is absolute humidity?
The mass of water vapor in the air relative to the mass of dry air.
500
Where is the asthenosphere?
Located in the lower part of the Earth's mantle.
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What is Cosmic Background Radiation.
Two guys and their telescope found this proof of the Big Bang in the 1950's






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