Intro/ Features/ Location
Features Of the Earth
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Minerals
100
What are the four branches of Earth Science?
What is geology, meterology, oceanography, astronomy.
100
The Earth is known as what because of its shape?
What is oblate spheroid
100
What is the Elastic Rebound Theory?
What is theory that rocks that are strained past a certain point will fracture and spring back to their original shape.
100
What does a volcano have that also flows out of it.
What is magma
100
What are three carcteristics of a mineral?
What is natural, inorganic, and crystalline solid
200
What are the 5 steps in a scientific method.
What is state the problem, gather information, form a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, State a Conclusion
200
When the earth spins on its axis it is what ?
What is rotation
200
What is a focus?
What is area along a fault at which slippage first occures, initiating an earthquake.
200
How was the Mid-Ocean formed?
What is Volcanoes under ground.
200
What is a crystal?
What is a natural solid with a definate internal pattern.
300
What is the definition for a hypothesis?
What is a possible explanantion or solution to the problem.
300
What are the earth's 4 seasons?
What is fall, winter, spring, and summer
300
What is the area on the surface directly above the focus?
What is epicenter.
300
What are the three kinds of Volcanoes?
What is Shield, Cinder Cone, and Composite Volcano
300
What is a scale for the hardness of a mineral?
What is Mohs Hardness scale.
400
what is the definition for theory?
What is hypothesis or set of hypotheses supported by the results of experimentation and observation.
400
12:00 noon is when the earth is what?
What is at its highest point.
400
What is What scale expresses the intensity of an earthquake?
What is Mercalli Scale
400
What is a large crater in the top of a volcano, from all the magma emtying out?
What is caldera
400
When a rock breaks in flat surfaces is?
What is cleavage
500
What is the definition for scientific law?
What is rule that correctly describes a natural phenomenon.
500
What is the line that north to south, and doesa it mean.
What is International Date Line, and it shows where there are two different days.
500
When a earthquke has a epicenter on the ocean floor. What can sometimes happen?
What is tsunami
500
Pyroclastic particles of less than 2mm in diameter that come from a volcano is?
What is volcanic ash
500
What is it called when you scratch a mineral on a slate for a color?
What is streak.
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