Scientific Method/Properties of the earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rocks and Minerals
100
What is the 2nd step in the scientific method.
What is Gathering Information
100
This is a term when 1 plate goes under another
What is subduction
100
Where most earthquakes occur in this US state
What is California
100
What is the "medium" sized volcano.
What is the cinder cone.
100
3 types of rock
What is Sedimentary, Metamorphic, and Igneous
200
Vertical lines covering east to west of the prime meridian
What is Longitude
200
This is the lower most layer
What is Athenosphere
200
Best type of ground material for an earthquake
What is Bedrock
200
What year did Mt. St. Helens explode.
What is 1980
200
First step in the Rock cycle
What is Crystallization
300
The shape of the earth
What is an oblate spheroid
300
Upper layer of the Mantle
What is Lithosphere
300
A device used to record seismic waves
What is Seismograph
300
What type of volcano was Helens
What is Composite
300
Last step in the rock cylce
What is Melting
400
The study of the universe beyond earth
What is Astronomy
400
What are 2 types of tectonic plate crusts
What is Oceanic and Continental
400
The ring of fire location
What is Pacific Ocean
400
What is slow moving lava called
What is felsic
400
Most common in Pa; Weathering and Erosion
What is Erosive Forces
500
Where is the earth wider than the rest of the earth.
What is the equator
500
What was the super continent called
What is Pangea
500
What country had a earthquake/tsunami combo
What is Japan
500
Why does a shield volcano wider at the bottom and short at the top
What is the lava is gushing downward because it is mafic.
500
Intense heat and pressure cause what
What is Metamorphic rock
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