If the meteors survive and strike the surface of the Earth they are called?

Small pieces of space debris (usual parts of comets or asteroids) that are on a collision course with the Earth are called?

A large unknown number of smaller bodies that also revolve around the sun. 

Located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is called the Asteroid Belt.

Made up of ice, dust, carbon dioxide, ammonia, and methane, but it is mostly ice that orbits the sun.

Used in the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean.

Used in the Northern part of the Atlantic Ocean/Northeast pacific.

 Used only in the Pacific Ocean.

Air rises and forms water droplets. Usually results in rain and storms.

Causes air to sink (does not allow clouds to form). The air is coming from the south. Usually results in several days of clear sunny skies.

Northern Monsoon

[Little or no rainfall]

Southwest Monsoon

[Warm and Humid air]

Where wind is light or calm, and there is no rainfall. Moves around the center or “eye”.

Located outside the eye, has the heaviest precipitation and strongest wind speed.

The center of the spiral that extends about 10-100 km in diameter. It is where the low pressure of a tropical cyclone. Wind speed is low here but somewhat calm weather.

The earth's crust is made of sections called?

The theory that suggests that all the continents were once joined into a single supercontinent called Pangaea and soon broke up and the piece drifted apart to form the present-day continents

A break or fracture between two blocks of rocks in response to stress, along which movement has occurred

The point where two plates meet

Where two plates do not directly collide but slide past each other along a fault.

Two plates move apart, and magma rises to fill the gap. This causes volcanoes.

Where 2 plates of similar densities move together. Forming fold mountains.

Occur when a massive plate is forced under (or subducts) the lightest plate. Forming volcanoes.

Occurs with minor tremors (low magnitude). It happens before the main quake

An earthquake of less intensity that follows the main quake

Above

Point on the Earth's surface above the focus

The point on the fault where rupture occurs and the location from which seismic waves are released.

Waves of energy caused by sudden breaking of rock within the earth.

Seismic waves that travel through the interior of the Earth, having higher frequency

Seismic waves that travel only through the crust, having lower frequency

Faster type of seismic waves.

They travel through Crust & Mantle (solids/liquids)

Slower type of seismic waves.

They only travel through Crust (solids)

Fastest surface waves and is considered as transverse but sideward.

This wave rolls along the ground, causing the trembling. There are circular waves under the crest

How strong or weak the shaking is

(Roman Numerals: I , II, III)

Released energy that is calculated by scientists

(Hindu-Arabic: 2, 3, 4)

Measures the magnitude of a tremor

(How powerful it is)

An instrument that detects and measures waves

The seismograph's record of the waves

(The higher the wave lines, the stronger the quake is)

Structure along which we expect displacement to occur.

Heat from the Interior creates convection currents slowly moving rock due to density differences.

More dense material

Less dense material

The composition of each layer

(mantle, core)

The physical properties that allow the movement we observe.

(inner/outer core, mesosphere)

Layer of rock that forms Earth’s outer skin

The thickest layer of the earth. It is solid. however, at the upper part, high temperatures make the silicate material considerably ductile, thus allowing it to flow.

Consists of denser materials composed primarily of iron and nickel.

Underlies oceanic basic composed mostly of igneous rocks made from iron magnesium silicate.

(THIN)

Crust that forms the continents. It is composed of sodium, potassium, aluminum silicate rocks

(THICK)

Outermost layer of the Earth that consists of the entire crust and the top most portion of the mantle.

Includes the soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere moves. Made of solid silicate materials, but the high temperatures allows it to flow on very long timescales

Layer below  the asthenosphere but  above the outer core.

Extends from the bottom of the mesosphere of the lower mantle and surrounds the inner core. Composed of iron and nickel, the extreme temperature allows these metals to remain in their liquid phases.

A dense ball of solid metal. Extreme pressure squeezes the atoms of iron and nickel so much that they cannot spread out and become liquid.

A doughnut shaped ring of icy objects just outside of Neptune's orbit

A region of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where most of the asteroids in our Solar System are found orbiting the Sun

Collection of icy objects farther away than everything else in the solar system