Rocks, Minerals, & Plate Tectonics
What do ALL rocks contain?
What are minerals?
What are the three fossil fuels?
What are coal, crude oil, and natural gas?
An underwater mountain range that forms due to divergent plate movement is called
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
Heating a metal rod is an example of
What is conduction?
Why do we have seasons?
What is because of Earth's tilt?
Which volcano is the largest and has slow, gentle eruptions where the lava can travel for miles?
What is a shield volcano?
A model in the shape of a living thing or its remains is called
What is a cast?
Which current flows deep below the ocean and is driven by density and temperature gradients?
What are deep currents?
What is the hottest, biggest layer where the auroras occur?
What is the thermosphere?
What galaxy is our solar system a part of?
What is the Milky Way?
California is prone to earthquakes because it lies along the San Andreas fault line. Which plate boundary causes earthquakes?
What is a transform boundary?
Resources that can be replaced as quickly as they are used are called
What are renewable resources?
A pot boiling on the stove and releasing water vapor is an example of
What is evaporation?
What are thin, feathery clouds found at high altitudes
What are cirrus clouds?
The force that pulls objects towards each other is called
What is gravity?
Which layer of the earth is a solid ball of metal made mostly of iron?
What is the inner core?
A mixture of rocks (minerals), air, water, and organic matter is called
What is soil?
What is salinity?
What winds blow over Georgia?
What are trade winds?
The model that says the Earth is at the center of the universe is called
What is geocentric?
The creation of new crust or ocean floor at a divergent plate boundary is called.
What is sea-floor spreading?
This soil horizon is mostly pieces of weathered rock and determines the soil's pH.
What is parent material?
Tides that occur when the sun, earth, and moon are at a right (90°) angle are called
What are neap tides?
What 3 things are needed for a thunderstorm to occur?
What are moisture, unstable air, and lift?
What order are the sun, Earth, and moon in to have a solar eclipse?
What is sun, moon, then Earth?