What is Earth Science?
What is Geology
What is Oceanography
What is Meteorology?
What is Astronomy?
How does Ecology affect the Geo-sphere and the Biosphere?
What is Environmental Pollution?
Biodegradable
What are the steps of the Scientific Method?
What is the shape of the earth, and why?
What are the layers of the Earth
How much of the earth is hydrosphere? What are the percentages of fresh and salt water?
Define Continental Drift
How is it different from plate tectonics
Define Pangaea and what theory is it from
What occurs at Mid-Ocean Ridges?
Explain Paleomagnetism on the Ocean Floor
What are Seismic Waves and how do they help us study the inside of the earth?
What is the Moho, and in between what two layers is it located in?
What is a Shadow Zone?
What is gravity and how is it measured?
In what direction does the Earth Rotate and Revolve? What shape is the Earth's orbit
Define Perihelion, Aphelion, Perigee and Apogee
Talk about the Summer solstice, winter solstice, autumnal equinox, and vernal equinox.
What is Precession of the earth and what causes it?
What are time zones?
How wide in Longitude are time zones?
Where is all time on Earth measured from?
What is a natural satellite?
What is an artificial satellite?
Explain a Satellite in a Geosynchronous Orbit
Explain a Satellite in a Polar Orbit
Name different types of Artificial Satellites and their jobs
Define the lines of latitude and longitude; what are their maximum number of degrees
What is a Great Circle and what is it used for?
What is the difference between the Geographic North and South Pole. How are they the same?
Give four examples of Continental Drift
Where are Mid-Ocean Ridges located?
How is crust formed at a MOR (Mid-Ocean Ridge)
Explain Paleomagnetism of the Ocean Floor
What evidence is there of reversed magnetic fields on the Ocean Floors?
Compare Ocean and Continental crusts.
What causes plates to move? What are convection currents?
Name 3 Lithospheric boundaries and give an example of each.
What is the theory of suspect terranes?
What are the characteristics of a Terrane
Explain Primary Waves
Explain Secondary Waves
How are volcanic mountains formed?
What are Shadow Zones? Where are they found?
What causes a Tsunami to form?
What is Tephra? Name several types of it.
Identify Mafic and Felsic Lava
Name and define 3 types of volcanic cones
How do scientists know if a volcano might erupt?
Define the Craters, Calderas and vents of a vocano
What other planets are known to have volcanic activity.