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  • The theory of plate tectonics says that Earth's plates are in slow constant motion driven by what?
    Convection currents in the mantle
  • We use rulers and graduated cylinders to find the what?
    Volume
  • A large body of air that has similar temperature and humidity throughout it.
    Air mass
  • In 1910 a German Scientist named Alfred Wegener had the theory of?
    Continental Drift
  • Which type of rock forms from heat and pressure?
    Metamorphic Rock
  • At which type of plate boundary do the plates slip past each other?
    Transform
  • How does heat transfer?
    From hot/warm to cold/cool
  • What do we call rain, sleet, snow or ice?
    Precipitation
  • The measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
    Humidity
  • At which type of plate boundary do the plates move away from each other?
    Divergent
  • What tool do we use to find the mass of an object?
    Triple Beam Balance
  • What do we call it when water changes from a gas to a liquid?
    Condensation
  • Which type of heat transfer is through a fluid?
    Convection
  • Which cycle reuses water on Earth?
    Water Cycle
  • At which type of plate boundary do the plates move toward each other?
    Convergent
  • Which type of heat transfer is through empty space?
    Radiation
  • Which type of heat transfer is through touch?
    Conduction
  • What does a natural hazard become when it causes widespread injury, death or property damage?
    Natural Disaster
  • What type of rock forms from weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction and cementation?
    Sedimentary
  • Which sphere on Earth contains all air?
    Atmosphere
  • Which sphere on Earth contains all of Earth's water?
    Hydropshere
  • Which sphere of Earth contains all life on Earth?
    Biosphere
  • Wegener called the giant landmass of continents ?
    Pangaea
  • Which rock is the least common?
    Metamorphic
  • The force of air pushing on an object.
    Air pressure
  • What type of rock forms from the cooling of magma or lava?
    Igneous Rock
  • What do we call it when water changes from a liquid to a gas?
    Evaporation
  • What type of rock would I find fossils in?
    Sedimentary
  • Which sphere on Earth contains all land?
    Geosphere
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