GEOSPHERE

IT'S AN EARTH THING

100

It makes up the continents and the shallow areas of oceans

A. Oceanic crust

B. Continental crust

C. Mantle

B. CONTINENTAL CRUST

200

It is dense and it composed by basalt, most new crust is made there:

A. Oceanic crust

B. Continental Crust

C. Ring of fire

A.OCEANIC CRUST

300

Consists of the crust and upper mantle.

A. Core

B. Mantle

C. Lithosphere

C.LITHOSPHERE

400

Elements that make up the inner core.

A. Iron and coal

B. Nickel and Iron

C. Nickel and gold

B.IRON AND NICKEL

500

This layer of the Earth is the deep and it is molten:

A. Inner core

B. Mantle

C. Outer core

C. OUTER CORE

LET'S ROCK!

100

A naturally formed substance that has a mixture of chemical compositions.

A. Soil

B. Rock

C. Continent

B. ROCK

200

Transitions of rocks through repetitive stages.

The __________ cycle

ROCK CYCLE

300

These rocks are formed by the cooling and the solidification of magma or lava

A. Igneous

B. sedimentary

C. metamorphic 

A. IGNEOUS ROCKS

400

Rocks formed from heat and pressure:

A. Igneous

B. sedimentary

C. metamorphic 

C.METAMORPHIC ROCKS

500

What is this type of soft rock?

A. Igneous

B. sedimentary

C. metamorphic 

B.SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

Plate tectonics

100

Plates move away from each other:

A. Convergent

B Divergent

C. Tranform

B. Divergent

200

Plates moving toward each other:

A. Convergent

B Divergent

C. Tranform

B. Convergent

300

Plates slide horizontally past one another:

A. Convergent

B Divergent

C. Tranform

C. Transform

400

The sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the Earth crust into the mantle below:

A.Lithosphere

B. Convection

C. Subduction

C. Subduction

500

3 classifications of volcanoes are Active, _____ and ___________

Extinct and dormant 

Ecological succession

100

____ is the process of how species compositions change in an ecological community over time:

A. Metamorphosis

B. Rock cycle

C. Succession

C. Succession

200

 The beginning step of ecological succession where species known as pioneer species colonize an uninhabited site, which usually occurs in an environment with no soil or vegetation:

A. primary succession

B. secondary succession    C. Climax community

A. Primary

300

Secondary succession is a process started by an event (like a forest fire.)

A. Primary succession

B. Secondary succession

C. Pioneer species

B. secondary 

400

Thin weak area in the Earth’s crust that magma seeps through.

A. Hot Springs

B. Pumice

C. Hot spots

C. Hot spots

500

Landforms formed by volcanic eruptions have ________soil for farming due to the minerals in the soil:

A. Fertile

B. Toxic

C. Dark

A. Fertile

VOCABULARY

100

______________ is a major geological fault line located in California, where the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate meet.

________    _________  fault

San Andres fault

200

This is an underwater mountain range formed by tectonic plates pulling apart, a process that creates from magma rising from the mantle.

Mid _____________  ___________

Mid ocean ridge

300

Mt. St Helen was a major eruption in Washington state in:

A. 1970

B. 1980

C. 1990

B. 1980

400

Process used to trace the epicenter of an earthquake.

A. Focus

B. Triangulation

C. Compass

TRIANGULATION

500

The instrument used to measure earthquakes.

SEISMOGRAPH