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Joe K, Nick W, Tuck
Our studystack for 2nd semester finals
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the process in which precipitation is carried into oceans? | Runoff |
| What kind of weather will nimbostratus clouds likely bring? | Rainy |
| What kind of weather does an air mass with the symbol cT bring? | Warm and dry |
| A continental polar air mass forms in? | Northern Canada |
| When warm air moves over cold air and replaces it, what front forms? | A warm front |
| What kind of weather does an occluded front bring? | Lots of precipitation |
| How do winds behave in a cyclone? | They spiral towards the center |
| An anticyclone is an area of ___________ pressure. | High |
| What kind of weather would an anticyclone likely bring? | Dry and clear |
| Tectonic plates consist of? | Continental and oceanic lithosphere |
| Wegener thought that all the continents were once together in one large continent known as? | Pangaea |
| Evidence for sea-floor spreading has come from? | Magnetic minerals on the ocean floor |
| A possible result of plates moving along a transform boundary is an? | Earthquake |
| What is the outermost layer of the Earth called? | Lithosphere |
| What type of fault usually occurs because of compression? | Reverse |
| In a reverse fault, where does the hanging wall move relative to the footwall? | Upward |
| In a normal fault does the hanging wall move up or down? | Down |
| A cinder cone volcano ______________. | Has steep slopes |
| Will an extinct volcano erupt again. | No |
| Molten rock that is underground gathers in a _________. | Magma chamber |
| Volcanoes are created by _______. | Repeated eruptions of lava |
| Pahoehoe lava flows like _______. | Dripping Wax |
| Lapilli means_________. | little stones |
| Water causes an ________ eruption. | explosive |
| Lava that forms in jumbled heaps near the vent. | Blocky Lava |
| What are the strongest storms on earth? | Hurricanes |
| What does a cumulonimbus cloud bring? | Thunderstorms |
| What is the most dangerous part of a tornado? | Strong Winds |
| What is the eye of a hurricane like? | Calm and warm |
| Lightning travels from the ground up. True or False | True |
| You find a high place during a _________. | Flash Flood |
| When two opposite winds start spinning over a prarie this is starting a __________. | Tornado |
| What is a crack in the earth's crust? | Rift |
| Mount Rainier and Mt. St. Helens are _______. | Composite volcanoes |
| Images of weather sysems on T.V. come from _______. | Weather Satalites |
| What does a stationary front bring? | Cloudy wet weather |
| _______ percent of tornadoes occur in the U.S. | 75 |
| Mid-level clouds have the pre-fix ________. | Alto |
| Lightning goes between _________ and _______ charges. | Positive, negative |
| Cyclones are areas of _________. | Low Pressure |
| Cyclone bring ________ weather. | wet |
| Air ________ to form a cyclone. | collides and rises |
| What throws hail back up? | updrafts |
| What does mP stand for? | maritime polar |
| What does cT stand for? | continental tropical |
| What will an mP air mass bring? | cold wet weather |
| What will a mT air mass bring? | warm wet weather |
| What does a wind sock measure? | Wind direction |
| How is a wind sock shaped? | Like a cone |
| What does a psychrometer measure? | Relative Humidity |
| What is a psychrometer made of? | A wet bulb thermometer and a dry bulb thermometer. |
| What does an anemometer measure? | Wind Speed |
| What does a barometer measure? | Air Pressure |
| What does radar track? | The location movement and ammount of precipitation |
| What is special about doppler radar? | It tracks tornadoes. |
| Fog is ______. | A cloud that forms near the ground. |
| A puffy white clod with a flat bottom. | Cumulus |
| Clouds that cover a large area. | Stratus |
| Thin wispy clouds. | Cirrus |
| What seismic wave comes first in a earthquake? | P wave |
| What does S wave stand for? | Shear Wave |
| A surface wave moves like ________. | An ocean wave |
| The core consists of mainly _______. | Iron |
| Earth was one continent called ______. | Pangaea |
| What is the bending of rock layers due to stress? | Folding |
| What is the theory that describes the movement of earths continents? | Continental Drift |
| What kind of force creates mountains with sharp jagged peaks? | Compression |
| What type of plate boundary is it whaen plates separate? | Divergent Plate Boundary |
| What type of plate boundary is it whaen plates collide? | Convergent Plate Boundary |
| What type of plate boundary is it whaen plates slide past each other? | Transform plate boundary |
| What type of volcano is Mauna Loa? | Sheild volcano |
| Where is the Ring of Fire? | Around the Pacific ocean |
| Where do most earthquakes happen? | On faults |
| How was Hawai'i formed? | By hot spot volcanoes |
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