Rocks
This rock forms from molten magma cooling slowly inside the earth
What is an Intrusive Igneous rock?
These are large slabs of crust and upper-mantle that move across the surface of the earth.
What are plates?
This property of magma determines how fast it will flow/move
What is viscosity?
This wave is the first to arrive during an earthquake
What is the Primary or P wave?
This property of ocean water tells you how much salt is in the water.
What is Salinity?
This rock forms from molten magma cooling rapidly on the surface
What is an Extrusive Igneous rock?
Subduction zones occur at this plate boundary.
What is a convergent boundary
This volcano has gently sloping sides and is the largest of the volcano types.
What is a Shield volcano?
This scale is used to Measure the magnitude of an earthquake
What is the Richter scale?
A creature that floats in the water would be considered this.
What is plankton?
These rocks are formed from existing rocks that have been weathered, transported, deposited and lithified.
What are Sedimentary rocks?
Mid ocean ridges are an example of this plate boundary.
What is Divergent?
Of the 3 types of lava, this one is the most viscous
What is Rhyolitic lava?
This scale is used to quantify the amount of damage to structures an earthquake causes.
What is the Modified Mercalli Scale?
This zone is completely dark with no sunlight reaching it at all.
What is the Aphotic zone?
This rock is formed from existing rocks that have been put under extreme temperature and pressure that changes their physical properties.
What is a Metamorphic rock?
What are rocks and fossils.
This volcano is the smallest and consists almost entirely of ash deposits.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
This machine is used to measure the shaking from earthquakes
What is a Seismometer?
This zone is closest to shore and has creatures that can live out of water for short periods of time.
What is the Intertidal zone?
This cycle can change one rock type into another rock type over a very very long time.
What is the rock cycle?
Magnetic reversal patterns on the ocean floor near mid ocean ridges are used to determine this property of the sea floor.
What is the age?
The amount of this chemical compound present in magma determines its viscosity.
What is silica?
This is the location on the ground directly above focus of an earthquake
What is the epicenter?
The steep drop off from the continental shelf is called this.
What is the continental slope?