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science exam for sky high
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a mountain belt that surrounds the pacific ocean | Circum pacific belt |
| stress that squeezes crustal rocks together | Compression |
| bending and tilting and breaking of the earths crust | deformation |
| mountain belt that runs through asia, north Africa and southern Europe | Eurasian melasian belt |
| break in rock along which rocks on either side of the break move | Fault |
| mountain formed where faulting breaks the earths crust into large blocks and the blocks are tilted and lifted | fault block mountain |
| landform created when tectonic movements bend and uplift rock layers | Folded mountains |
| - permanent deformation or bending of a rock under stress | folding |
| balancing of the forces pressing up and down on the crust | Isostasy |
| large area of flat topped rocks high above sea level | plateau |
| stress that pushes rocks in the opposite horizontal derections | shearing |
| change in shape and volume of rocks that occurs due to stress | strain |
| fault where rock on both sides of a fault plane moves horizontally | strike slip fault |
| stress that pulls rocks apart | Tension- |
| vibrations of earths crust | Earthquake |
| rocks strained to a point fracture then spring back to normal | elastic rebound theory |
| point of surface directly above the focus of an earthquake | epicenter- |
| area on a fault when slippage occurs first initiating an earthquake | focus |
| amount of damage caused by an earthquake | intensity |
| long wave and slowest generated by earthquake | Lwave |
| expresses the intensity of an earthquake | Mercalli scale- |
| primary wave, fastest generated by earthquake | Pwave |
| secondary wave, wave generated by an earthquake | swave |
| detects and records seismic waves | seismograph |
| giant ocean waves | tsunima |
| jagged chunks of lava formed by rapid cooling on the surface of lava flow | aa |
| large basin shaped depression formed when an explosion destroys the upper part of volcanic cone | caldera |
| steep slopped deposits of solid fragments ejected from a volcano | cinder cone |
| a.k.a stratovolcano steep sloped volcanic deposit w/ altering layers of hardened lava flows and tephra | composite cone |
| funnel shaped pit at the top of a volcanic cone | crater |
| area of volcanism within a lithoshperic plate | hot spot |
| solidified mafic lava w/ a wrinkled surface | pahoehoe |
| rock fragments ejected from a volcano | pyroclastics |
| deposite of hardened lava with a broad base and gentle slopes | shield cone- |
| brightness of a star as it appears | absolute magnitude |
| brightness of a star as it appears to earth | apparent magnitude |
| that results when a white dwarf star no longer gives off energy | black dwarf |
| hole in space with a gravity so great that not even light can escape, formed by the collapse of a very large super nova | Black hole |
| apparent shortening of the light waves emitted by a star moving towards the earth | blue shift |
| any star that is always visible in the night sky | circum polar |
| - pattern of stars | constellation |
| large scale group of stars | galaxy |
| hertzsprung-russell graph that shows the relationship of the surface temp. and absolute magnitude of a star | HR diagram- |
| distance that light travels in one year, about 9.5 trillon km | light year |
| star with characteristics | main sequence star |
| galaxy in which the earth & solar system are located | Milky Way Galaxy |
| cloud of gas and dust in space | nebula |
| dwarf that explodes as it cools | nova |
| neuron star that emits two beams of radiation that sweep across space | pulsar |
| star like object that gives off radio waves & xrays | quaser |
| very large cool bright star | red giant |
| apparent lengthening of the light waves emitted by a star moving away from the earth | red shift |
| extremly large red giant star | super giant |
| star that blows apart with a explosion | super nova |
| small hot dim star | WHITE DWARF |
| GOOD | LUCK |
| this took | forever |
| my brain is | dead |
| i am going to | die |
| i am sick of | studying |
| last | one |
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