Ch 4 Science
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| What happens when cool,damp air approaches a mountain range? | water vapor in the air condenses and forms rain
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| Why do sea breezes form? | land heats faster than water
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| Which of these can cause an area to have a mild climate? | being near a body of water
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| Which side of the mountain tends to dry | leeward
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| What caused the major features of Tennessee's landscape? | Plate Tectonics
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| How do we measure the magnitude of an Earthquake? | The Richter Scale
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| What is melted rock that reaches the Earth's surface? | lava
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| What device detects and measures Earthquakes' waves? | seismometer
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| The average weather in a place is called what? | climate
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| Underwater earthquakes of great magnitude can create what? | Tsunamis
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| The measure of the weight of air pressing down on an area is called what? | air pressure
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| What is the air pressure at the top of a mountain like? | lower than the air pressure at the bottom
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| What is a natural feature that can slowly affect Earth's surface? | A flowing river
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| What is a rain shadow? | the dry area on the leeward side of a mountain
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| During an El Nino, what are the temperatures near the coast of Peru like? | warmer than usual
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| How are folded mountains produced? | when Earth's plates are pushed into each other
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| What is the dry area on the leeward side of a mountain? | rain shadow
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| The crust and the top part of the mantle make up what? | lithosphere
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| Earth's surface layer is the what? | crust
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| What layer of Earth's interiors lies just below the crust? | mantle
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| The plate tectonics model states that Earth's crust is composed of what? | huge plated of solid rock that fit together
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| What is a fault? | A large crack in Earth's crust
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| What do huge slabs of rock moving suddenly against each other in Earth's crust create? | Earthquake
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| What is an opening in Earth's crust through which magma flows? | volcano
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