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Catashropic Events
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Globe | A spherical model of the Earth |
| Map | Shows the Earth on parts of it on a flat suface |
| Meterorologist | Studies the Earth's atomsphere; monitors,studies,and forecasts the weather |
| Geologist | Studies the history of the Earth's structre of Earth as it is recorded in rocks |
| Seismologist | Studies monitors earthquake activity |
| Volcanologist | studies and monitors volcanic activity |
| Eye | Center of Hurricane |
| Funnel Cloud | water droplets,associated with rotating column of wind and extending base of a cloud |
| Cyclone | an area of closed circular fluid motion in the same direction of earth |
| Typhon | A tropical storm |
| Vortex | something regarded as a whirling mass |
| Hurricane | a huge storm with strong wind that get up to 600 miles |
| Tornado | a mobile distructive vortex violating roating winds |
| Water Vapor | vapor of water |
| Carbon Dixoide | colorless orderless gas vital to life |
| water cycle | the cycle process by which water circulates between the earth's ocean's,atmosphere,and land |
| Tempature | degree of intensity of heat present in a substance or object |
| run-off | the drawing away of water or substances carried from the surface of an area |
| ground water | water held by in soil or in a process and crevices in a rock |
| high pressure | a condition of an atmosphere in which the pressure is above average |
| low pressure | a condition of an atmosphere in which is below average |
| currents | a body of water or moving air |
| gulf stream | a warm ocean current flowing in from Mexico |
| coriollis effeect | a whereby mass moving in a rotating sytem |
| upwelling | a rising sea water |
| EL Ninio | an irregularly ouccring and complex series |
| Salnity | a total amount of disolved materieal |
| compression | the action of compressing or being compressed. the reduction in volume (causing an increase in pressure) of the fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine before ignition |
| tension | the state of being stretched tight |
| stress | mental tension. Stresses can be external (from the environment, psychological, or social situations) or internal (illness, or from a medical procedure) |
| strike slip fault | Strike-slip faults are vertical (or nearly vertical) fractures where the blocks have mostly moved horizontally. If the block opposite an observer looking across the fault moves to the right, the slip style is termed right lateral. |
| Normal fault | normal fault. A geologic fault in which the hanging wall has moved downward relative to the footwall. Normal faults occur where two blocks of rock are pulled apart, as by tension. Compare reverse fault. |
| reverse fault | A geologic fault in which the hanging wall has moved upward relative to the footwall. Reverse faults occur where two blocks of rock are forced together by compression. Compare normal fault. See Note and illustration at fault |
| shearing | break off or cause to break off, owing to a structural strain |
| San Andres fault | The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1300 km through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, and its motion is right-lateral strike-slip |
| plateau | an area of relatively level high ground. |
| hanging wall | the block of rock that lies above an inclined fault or an ore body |
| foot wall | Definition of footwall. 1 : the lower underlying wall of a vein, ore deposit, or coal seam in a mine. 2 : the lower wall of an inclined fault |
| anticlyne | a ridge-shaped fold of stratified rock in which the strata slope downward from the crest. |
| sycline | a trough or fold of stratified rock in which the strata slope upward from the axis. |
| athnosphere | the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, in which there is relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occu |
| inner core | The Earth's inner core is the Earth's innermost part and according to seismological studies, it is primarily a solid ball with a radius of about 1220 kilometers, or 760 miles (about 70% of the Moon's radius). |
| mantle | mantle definition. The region of the interior of the Earth between the core (on its inner surface) and the crust (on its outer). Note: The mantle is more than two thousand miles thick and accounts for more than three-quarters of the volume of the Earth. |
| outer core | The outer core of the Earth is a fluid layer about 2,300 km (1,400 mi) thick and composed of iron and nickel that lies above Earth's solid inner core and below its mantle. Its outer boundary lies 2,890 km (1,800 mi) beneath Earth's surface |
| lithosphere | The lithosphere is the solid outer section of Earth, which includes Earth's crust (the "skin" of rock on the outer layer of planet Earth) |
| crust | In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet or natural satellite, which is chemically distinct from the underlying mantle |
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