Earth Science

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Earth Science
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400 400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500 500
Chemistry Minerals
Weathering Erosion
Freshwater
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
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400 400 400 400 400
600 600 600 600 600
800 800 800 800 800
1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Plate Tectonics
Geologic Time
Meteorology
Oceanography
Astronomy
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Round One
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Chemistry Minerals FOR 100
The building blocks of minerals.
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Chemistry Minerals FOR 100
What are elements?
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Chemistry Minerals FOR 200
Atoms that contain the same numbers of protons
and different numbers of neutrons.
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Chemistry Minerals FOR 200
What are isotopes?
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Chemistry Minerals FOR 300
The way light is reflected off the surface of a
mineral.
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Chemistry Minerals FOR 300
What is luster?
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Chemistry Minerals FOR 400
The five characteristics of a mineral.
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Chemistry Minerals FOR 400
What are definite chemical composition,
inorganic, naturally occurring, crystalline,
solid?
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Chemistry Minerals FOR 500
A non-silicate class of mineral that contains the
elements carbon, oxygen and a metallic element
such as magnesium.
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Chemistry Minerals FOR 500
What are carbonates?
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Weathering Erosion FOR 100
The classification of weathering that changes the
composition of the rock.
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Weathering Erosion FOR 100
What is Chemical Weathering?
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Weathering Erosion FOR 200
Type of mechanical weathering that involves the
freezing and thawing of water.
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Weathering Erosion FOR 200
What is frost wedging?
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Weathering Erosion FOR 300
The force behind mass movements.
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Weathering Erosion FOR 300
What is gravity?
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Weathering Erosion FOR 400
The type of environment where chemical weathering
would be most effective.
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Weathering Erosion FOR 400
What is warm and humid?
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Weathering Erosion FOR 500
The name of the material deposited by a glacier.
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Weathering Erosion FOR 500
What is till?
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Freshwater FOR 100
To keep the water budget balanced, these two
factors must be equal.
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Freshwater FOR 100
What are evaporation (transpiration) and
precipitation?
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Freshwater FOR 200
Groundwater is found in this underground zone.
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Freshwater FOR 200
What is the zone of saturation?
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Freshwater FOR 300
The three types of load carried by a stream in
order of their size from largest to smallest.
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Freshwater FOR 300
What are bed, suspended, and dissolved?
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Freshwater FOR 400
The land area that contributes water to a stream.
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Freshwater FOR 400
What is a drainage basin?
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A formation where groundwater can rise under its
own pressure.
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What is an artesian well?
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Earthquakes FOR 100
These are the smaller earthquakes that precede a
major earthquake.
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Earthquakes FOR 100
What are foreshocks?
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Earthquakes FOR 200
The instrument that measures the energy released
from an earthquake.
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Earthquakes FOR 200
What is a seismograph?
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Earthquakes FOR 300
The most destructive type of seismic waves.
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Earthquakes FOR 300
What are surface waves (Rayleigh and Love)?
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Earthquakes FOR 400
The ocean waves formed by an earthquake that
occurs on the ocean floor.
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Earthquakes FOR 400
What is a tsunami?
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Earthquakes FOR 500
This specific type of seismic wave is used to
determine composition of the Earths interior
because it can travel through solids, liquids,
and gases.
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Earthquakes FOR 500
What are P-waves?
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Volcanoes FOR 100
The Hawaiian islands were formed when the Pacific
plate moved over one of these.
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Volcanoes FOR 100
What a hot spot?
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Volcanoes FOR 200
A large depression at the top of a volcano that
can be formed when the summit collapses.
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Volcanoes FOR 200
What are calderas (craters)?
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Volcanoes FOR 300
A lava flow with a surface of rough, jagged
blocks and sharp, angular projections.
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Volcanoes FOR 300
What is aa?
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Volcanoes FOR 400
The term to describe a fluids resistance to flow.
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Volcanoes FOR 400
What is viscosity?
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Volcanoes FOR 500
The level of silica, viscosity, and gas amounts
for an explosive eruption.
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Volcanoes FOR 500
What are high, high, and high?
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Plate Tectonics FOR 200
The scientist who developed the theory of
continental drift and Pangaea.
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Plate Tectonics FOR 200
Who was Alfred Wegener?
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Plate Tectonics FOR 400
When one lithospheric plate is forced to descend
into the mantle.
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Plate Tectonics FOR 400
What is subduction?
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Plate Tectonics FOR 600
Earthquakes usually occur along these type of
plate boundaries.
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Plate Tectonics FOR 600
What are transform plate boundaries?
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The type of plate boundary where magma rises
forming the mid-ocean ridge.
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What is a divergent plate boundary?
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Plate Tectonics FOR 1000
Term to describe the strips of alternating
magnetic polarities that show changes in Earths
magnetic poles over time.
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Plate Tectonics FOR 1000
What is paleomagnetism?
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Geologic Time FOR 200
The principle that the present is the key to the
past.
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Geologic Time FOR 200
What is uniformitarianism?
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Geologic Time FOR 400
The rock type that preserves fossils.
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Geologic Time FOR 400
What is sedimentary rock?
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Geologic Time FOR 600
The geologic eras in order.
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Geologic Time FOR 600
What are Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and
Cenozoic?
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Geologic Time FOR 800
The fraction of original parent isotope that
would exist after 4 half-lives.
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Geologic Time FOR 800
What is 1/16?
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Geologic Time FOR 1000
The three characteristics for an index fossil.
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Geologic Time FOR 1000
What is short-lived, widespread, and easily
identifiable?
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Oceanography FOR 200
The four major oceans of the Earth.
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Oceanography FOR 200
What are the Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, and
Arctic?
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Oceanography FOR 400
A downslope current of dense sediment-rich water.
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Oceanography FOR 400
What is a turbidity current?
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Oceanography FOR 600
The name of the zone that describes how sunlight
fully penetrates the ocean water.
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Oceanography FOR 600
What is the photic zone?
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Oceanography FOR 800
The most abundant salt in the sea.
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Oceanography FOR 800
What is Sodium Chloride?
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Oceanography FOR 1000
Deep, steep-sided valleys that originate on the
continental slope and may extend to the ocean
basin floor.
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Oceanography FOR 1000
What are submarine canyons?
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Meteorology FOR 200
The two gases that make up nearly 98 of
atmospheric composition.
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Meteorology FOR 200
What are Nitrogen (78) and Oxygen (20)?
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Meteorology FOR 400
The hidden heat that causes the difference in
wet adiabatic and dry adiabatic cooling.
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Meteorology FOR 400
What is latent heat?
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Meteorology FOR 600
The classification of an air mass that would be
cold and dry. (two letters)
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Meteorology FOR 600
What is a cP air mass?
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Meteorology FOR 800
The direction of winds in a low pressure system
in the Southern hemisphere.
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Meteorology FOR 800
What is clockwise towards the center?
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Meteorology FOR 1000
The two greenhouse gases that are the most
responsible for absorbing radiation emitted by
Earth.
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Meteorology FOR 1000
What are Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor?
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Astronomy FOR 200
The first astronomer to say that the path of the
planets around the Sun was an ellipse.
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Astronomy FOR 200
Who was Kepler?
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Astronomy FOR 400
The slow change in tilt of the Earths axis over
time.
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Astronomy FOR 400
What is precession?
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Astronomy FOR 600
The only planet (other than Earth) that shows
evidence of water erosion.
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Astronomy FOR 600
What is Mars?
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Astronomy FOR 800
The three factors that impact a stars magnitude.
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Astronomy FOR 800
How big it is? How hot it is? How far away it is?
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Astronomy FOR 1000
In terms of wavelength, what happens during a
blue shift.
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Astronomy FOR 1000
What is the wavelength is shortened?
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