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Plate Tetonics
Earthquakes
Volcanos
Minerals
100
What are the four branches of Earth Science?
What are geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy.
100
How many lithospheric plates are there?
What is 30
100
Method used for finding the epicenter of an earthquake.
What is triangulation.
100
What magma is called when it hits the surface.
What is lava.
100
Least reliable source of identification.
What is color.
200
The study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth.
What is geology.
200
What two types of crust does the earth consist of?
What are continental, and oceanic crust.
200
tsunamis
What is a huge wave created by an earthquake?
200
The largest and most explosive of volcanos.
What is a composite volcano.
200
How a mineral breaks apart.
What is cleavage.
300
The study of the eath's oceans.
What is oceanography.
300
When two plates grind against eachother.
What is a transorm boundary.
300
the scale used to measure the intensity of an earthquake.
What is the Merclli Scale?
300
Broad, sloped and not tall or explosive volcano.
What is a shield volcano.
300
Describes a smooth, shiny suface on a mineral.
What is glassy texture.
400
The study of the universe beyond the earth.
What is astronomy.
400
Where old crust is sucked under surface and new crust comes up.
What is a subduction zone.
400
measures the damage of an earthquake.
What is the richter scale.
400
Tall volcano that emits mostly ashes.
What is a cinder cone.
400
How easily a mineral is scratched.
What is hardness
500
Organized knowlage about the earth.
What is earth science.
500
What forms along a subduction zone?
What is a trench.
500
the first waves created by an earthquake.
What are primary waves.
500
Where magma is stored in a volcano
What is the magma chamber.
500
The hardest mineral known to man.
What is diamond.
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