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He was the man who purposed the Continential Drift Theory. His theory purposed that the continents move or drift on an interior liquid layer. Similar to how ice floats on water. In 1915, he stated that all continents were all joined together in a land mass called "Pangea". |
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What was the Theory of Plate Tectonics? |
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Earth is made up of 7 large plates and many small plates that are constantly moving. |
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A sudden movement of the ground or a shake. This sometimes causes great destruction to the area that it occurs in. |
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What is Earthquake Energy? |
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It occurs in P and S waves. What causes these waves is a dramatic shift in the tectonic plates. |
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How do you locate a earthquake? |
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P and S intervals are used to determine how far a earthquake has occured. |
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Place on the surface of the earth that is directly over the focus. |
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The place where the earthquake is centered. Exactly under the Epicenter
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What is the Mercalli Scale? |
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Measures the effect of earths surface waves. |
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What is the Richter Scale? |
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It measures the size or magnitude of the earthquake. |
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What is a Earthquake Hazzard? |
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Fire,Aftershock,Tsunami,Flooding,Ground motion |
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A opening in earths crust in which magma has reached |
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What is the Ring of Fire? |
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A ring in which most volcanoes are lined |
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What is a Composite Volcano? |
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A volcano that is 1000 meters high and has steep slopes. |
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A gentle slope with mild eruptions.
Largest Volcano |
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What is a CInder Cone Volcano? |
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Eruption is smallest and most abundant. Only active for a short period of time. |
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What is a Volcano Hazzard? |
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Pyroclastic flows, ash clouds,volcanic gases. |
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This is known as the temperature at which water vapor moleucules start to form liquids. |
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In hurricane developement, this is type of area that is formed when cold wind rises. |
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This is the type of area that is formed when warm wind rises. This is the air pressure in the lower atmosphere |
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What is a Stationary Front? |
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This type of front is when two air masses collide but one does not displace the other |
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This type of cloud are sheet-like and layered found at the Earth's surface |
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These clouds are white and fluffy with flat bottom |
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These clouds are thin and wispy,This cloud looks slender and weak.
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This is what conditions of the atmosphere |
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This is a very large ecosystem. |
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What are the Thunderstorm Ingrediants? |
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The basic ingredients are the moisture, unstable atmosphere, and a "trigger" |
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What is the Thunderstorm life stages? |
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developing stage, mature stage, and dissipating stage.
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A narrow band of high winds and storms |
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A tornado is a rapidly spinning tube of air that touches both the ground and a cloud above |
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A storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in which winds blow down buildings and ocean waters destroy a local area |
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What is a Saffir- Simpson Scale? |
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The Saffir- Simpson Hurricane Scale is a 1-5 rating based on the hurricane's present intensity |
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What is a Surface Observation Symbol? |
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Surface Observation Symbol: Temperature, Weather Symbol, Dew Point Temperature |
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Kinetic Energy is energy in motion |
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What is the formula for calculating kinetic energy? |
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What is Potential energy? |
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Potential Energy is stored Energy or energy that does not move |
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What is the formula for calculating potential energy? |
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t is stored in the particles that make up food, fuel and other matter. |
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What is mechanical energy? |
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This is is matter in motion. |
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It is formed when tiny particles called atoms split apart (fission) or join together (fusion). |
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What is electrical energy? |
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This is the movement of charged particles, negative (-) and positive (+). |
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What is energy tranformation? |
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This is the process of changing one form of energy to another. |
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What is the law of conservation of energy? |
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This is energy that can be neither created nor destroyed by ordinary means. It can only be converted from one form to another. |
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What is a fossil fuel? What is the formation, source, and primary use? |
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The three different types of fossil fuels which are the primary uses are coal, oil, and natural gas. They were formed from prehistoric plants and animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. When the living things died, they decomposed and became buried under layers and layers of mud, rock, and sand. |
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These have a negative charge. This floats around the nucleus which is composed of protons and neutrons. |
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What is Static Electricity? |
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A stationary electric charge, typically produced by friction, that causes sparks or crackling or the attraction of dust or hair. |
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This is an electrical charge that is bound to an object. An unmoving electrical charge |
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This SI unit of electric charge, equal to the quantitiy of electricity conveyed in one second |
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When electrons flow through a bulb or another conductor, the conductor does offers some obstruction to the current |
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What is Current electricity? |
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A flow of electrical charge. Electricity is the flow of electrons from one place to another |
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Describes the relationship between the current, voltage, and resistance in a circuit. |
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What is the formula for calculating resistance? |
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What is the formula for calculating current? |
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What is the formula for calculating voltage? |
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What is a Series circuit? |
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This circuit is a circuit in which resistors are arranged in a chain |
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What is a Parallel circuit? |
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This circuit is a circuit in which the resistors are arranged with their heads connected together, and their tails connected together. |
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This is a unit which expresses how much energy a unit of charge will recieve. |
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Comes from tiny particles that move at fast rates and make heat and thermal. |
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