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Junky For Sci-Finals
Lauren, Audrey, and Hannah's Stack for Science Finals! Enjoy:)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What would you expect to see after an explosive volcanic eruption? | Calm Lava flows |
| What is another word for molten rock? | magma |
| Molten rock that flows on the Earth's surface | lava |
| dust-sized particles of hardened lava | ash |
| magma that is blasted into the air and hardens | pyroclastic material |
| a crack or opening in the Earth's crust | vent |
| a funnel shaped pit near a volcano's central vent | crater |
| a small volcano that usually erupts for a short time | cinder cone volcano |
| The core consists of mainly this | iron |
| a substance that is composed of two or more elements? | compound |
| the bending of rock layers because of stress | folding |
| a landform caused by repeated eruptions of lava | volcano |
| A volcano that probably won't erupt again | extinct volcano |
| A volcano that will erupt soon or is currently erupting | active volcano |
| A volcano that hasn't erupted for a long time but may erupt in the near future | dormant volcano |
| Stiffy cube lava that oozes out a volcano and forms in chunks | blocky lava |
| That lava is glassy, and hardens in smooth wrinkles. | pahoehoe lava |
| Lava that forms jaggad peaks, and hurts when you step on it | a'a lava |
| stress at a divergent plate boundary | tension |
| when a hanging wall moves down relative to footwall | normal fault |
| rising of rock layers | uplift |
| sinking of rock layers | subsidence |
| hanging wall moves up relative to footwall | reverse fault |
| What type of weather would a nimbostratus cloud likely bring. | Rain |
| Amount of water vapor in the air | humidity |
| Process in which liquid turns to vapor | evaporation |
| area of high pressure where air moves apart and sinks | anitcyclone |
| the temperature at which air must cool to be saturated | dew point |
| process in which water vapor turns into liquid | condensation |
| area of low pressure where air masses meet and rise. | cyclone |
| area in which two types of air masses meet | front |
| tracks the location, movement, and amount of precipitation | radar |
| consist of two thermometers | physhrometers |
| measures air pressure | barometer |
| a cloud that forms near the ground | fog |
| a cloud that brings a thunderstorm | cumulonimbus |
| a puffy white cloud with a flat bottom | cumulous |
| clouds that cover a large | stratus |
| A tornado is dangerous mostly because of its ______________ | strong winds |
| The most powerful storms on earth are _____________ | hurricanes |
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