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Science QB:Earth Sci
NAQT's Power Up Earth Sciences
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The namesake trough of these phenomena lies in in the Intertropical Convergence zone | Monsoon |
| One of these phenomena is driven in part by the Siberian High, an anticyclonic system | Monsoon |
| These occur due to the greater thermal inertia of continents | Monsoon |
| These phenomena produce a large scale sea breeze that flows landward in the summer | monsoon |
| Name these seasonally reversing winds that bring heavy rainfall to countries like india | monsoon |
| This phenomenon's namesake parameter is assumed to be constant or to vary linearly in the beat plane approximation | Coriolis effect/force/acceleration |
| This phenomenon's spatial variation provides restoring force to Rossby waves | Coriolis effect/force/acceleration |
| This phenomenon's magnitude is proportional to the cross product of particle velocity with frame angular momentum | coriolis effect/force/acceleration |
| name this effect that causes apparent deflection of moving particles in rotating reference frames | coriolis effect/force/acceleration |
| An abundance of these object is the namesake characteristic of lagerstatte deposits | Fossils |
| Because conodont elements change color under different temperature, they are examined as "index" versions of these objects | Fossils |
| The "index version of these objects can be used as paleothermometers | fossils |
| tail prints one coprolites are "trace" examples of what what hardened, preserved organic remains, exemplified by dinosaur skeletons | fossil |
| this force is a fictitious force that affects objects with a rotating reference frame. | coriolis force |
| Despite its name, the mysterious "ball" type of this phenomenon is fundamentally different from this phenomenon, and its mechanism is unknown | lightning |
| The Mohorovicic discontinuity, or the Moho for short, is the boundary that separates this from the crust. | Mantle |
| This concept helps drive tectonic plates move | sea floor spreading |
| Anemometers are devices built to measure the speed of these things | wind |
| Francis Beaufort devised a scale which measures these things | wind |
| This substance flows spontaneously out of springs | groundwater |
| The idea that a liquid outer core is responsible for this phenomenon is known as dynamo theory | earth's magnetic field |
| this is the term for the upper area of a saturated zone | water table |
| The area below one of these is completely saturated and is called the phreatic zone | aquifers |
| The area above one of these is called vadose zone and is not completely saturated | the water table |
| These things alter the v shape of a river valley to a u shape | glaciers |
| These things can leave behind till or sediment in their wake | glaciers |
| Till can accumulate into moraine along these things' margins | glaciers |
| if moraine forms at the side of one of these things it is called lateral moraine, while if it forms in the front it is called terminal moraine | glaciers |
| One of these may turn sediment into hills called drumlins | glaciers |
| These things may erode land to create a cirque or an arete | glacier (an cirque is a bowl shaped valley) |
| An esker is a deposit formed by streams that once flowed under the ice of one of these | glaciers |
| The weight of one of these can cause the land to bend, and when it melts it cause post this rebound | glacier |
| These things spew lapilli, which is a form of tephra | volcanoes |
| These things occasionally spew namesake bombs, which are the largest type of tephra | volcanoes |
| this is molten rock under the surface of the earth | magma |
| this is molten rock above the surface of the earth | lava |
| When this substance cools, it may form 'a'a, or rough, and pahoehoe, which is smooth | lava |
| This substance's pillow type is basaltic and formed under water | lava |
| the low, broad shield volcano is formed by the successive accumulation of this | lava |
| The steep sided cinder cone type of these is formed by deposition of rock fragments | volcano |
| Conical stratovolcanoes are built mostly by layers of this type of igneous rock | felsic |
| these things are caused by fracture zones, or faults | earthquakes |
| This thing is the point directly above the focus, or the origin of the earthquake | epicenter |
| This scale measures an earthquakes strength by observing the structural damage it caused | Mercalli scale |
| This scale measures the magnitude of earhtquakes | Richter Scale |
| Harry Fielding Reid proposed the elastic rebound theory to explain how energy is transferred during one of these events | earthquakes |
| Love waves and Rayleigh waves are these types of waves | seismic |
| this seismic wave only travels through liquid | p wave |
| this seismic wave only travels through solids | s wave |
| These types of rocks are formed from the lithification of deposits | sedimentary |
| some types of these rocks are clastic, meaning they are composed of older rocks | sedimentary |
| pepples, cobbles, boulders and other large rocks are major components of this | conglomerate |
| this rock is the primary component of caves | limestone |
| Breccia and chert are types of these rocks | sedimentary |
| Many shale deposits contain organic matter that can be refined into this | oil |
| Many of these rocks are mafic, which means they are rich in magnesium or iron | igneous |
| These rocks are felsic if they contain high amounts of silicon, potassium, oxygen or aluminum | igneous |
| this rock is a common felsic, and makes up half dome of yosemite | granite |
| This is present in the giants causeway | basalt |
| This kind of rock may be formed when it is heated by an intrusion of magma, that is called contact --- | Metamorphic (Contact metamorphosis was what was described in the question) |
| A regional form of this process occurs over large areas often due to a collision of tectonic plates and creates a namesake rock | metamorphism |
| Many types of these rocks are foliated | metamorphic |
| Alfred Wegener proposed this idea | continental drift |
| streak is a method used to determine this in rocks and minerals | colors |
| a classification of this property could be vitreous or metallic | luster |
| specific gravity is used to measure this quantity in rocks and minerals | density |
| apatite is a mineral found in these structures | Bones or Teeth |
| the very viscous, deformable layer asthenosphere is found in this layer | mantle |
| The mantle is separated from this by the gutenberg discontinuity | outer Core |
| Inge Lehmann used P-Waves to determine that this is solid | inner core |
| this part of the core is liquid | outer core |
| this is composed of solid iron and nickel | inner core |
| This man proposed the idea of pangea | Wegener |
| This was likely formed by laurasia and gondwanaland | Pangaea |
| This mineral is the main component of the metamorphic steatite | talc |
| it is often formed by hydrothermal alteration of of dolomitic marble by silica bearing fluid | talc |
| This is the primary mineral in soapstone | talc |
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