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