Rocks
Model that describes how rocks slowly change from one form to another through time.
What is the rock cycle?
Are minerals renewable?
No
What is seafloor spreading?
When the seafloor spreads.
Where do earthquakes start?
focus
How does a volcano form?
Magma rising from inside the earth.
Intrusive or extrusive rock formed when hot magma cools and hardens.
What is igneous rock?
Name 4 Inexaustible Energy Resources
Solar energy, wind energy, hydroeletric energy, geothermal energy.
How do plants turn into fossils?đ°
They get covered in mud and get pressed onto rock
What kind of wave is the fastest?
A primary wave
What makes a volcano eruption explosive?
When it is rich in silica
Forms when heat, preasure, or fluids act on igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic rock and affect its form or compostioin, or both.
What is metamorphic rock?
what is a mineral resource?
a deposit of useful minerals
What happens when two plates collide?
A convergent plate boundary forms.
How do u find an epicenter.
3 staitons measure the curcumfrence of the waves and where they meet is where the epicenter is
If a volcano has steep sides and is made of a mixture of lava and tephra layers what kind of volcano is it?
a Composite volcano.
Dead plant matter decays into peat and is converted into this.
What is coal?
How does nuclear energy work?
The spliting of large atoms to smaller ones
How many tectonic plates are there
7đ
What is an instrument used to register earthquake waves and record the time that each arrived.
A seismograph
What is an example of a divergent plate boundary
On the mid atlantic ride in Iceland
This forms when sediments are compacted and cemanted together or when minerals come out of solutio ar are left behind by evaporation.
Sedimentary rock.
Where does all energy come from?
the sun.
What are all of the 4 plate boundaries?
Divergent, convergent, subduction, and, tramsfrom
What is liquefaction?
When the soil acts more like a liquid during an earthquake.đ§đ§
what is the oldest volcano in the world
Etna