Minerals
Physical Properties of a Mineral
Continental Drift
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
100
What is the definition for a mineral?
What is Naturally Occurring, Inorganic, Solid, and Possess an orderly internal structure of atoms.
100
What are some of the Physical properties of minerals
What is streak, luster, Crystal Form, Hardness, Cleavage, Fracture, and Density(Specific Gravity).
100
Who's hypothesis was that the continents had once been joined to form a single super continent?
What is Wegener
100
Which boundary is found where two of Earth's plates move apart?
What is Divergent Boundary
100
Magma after it erupts out of the volcano?
What is lava
200
Lacks an orderly internal structure
What is a Mineraloid
200
What cannot be used to identify a mineral alone? why?
What is color because many minerals have same color
200
What Wegener call the supercontinent?
What is Pangea
200
What boundary forms where two plates move apart?
What is convergent?
200
What is the measure of a material's resistance to flow?
What is Viscosity
300
What is a hot mixture of water and dissolved substances, new minerals form when these solutions come in contact with existing minerals.
What is Hydrothermal Solutions.
300
What is used to describe how light is reflected from the surface of a mineral?
What is luster.
300
What did Wegener try to say to prove his hypothesis was right?
What is Fossils and rock types, fit of South America and Africa, and ancient climates.
300
What is the study of changes in Earth's magnetic field?
What is Paleomagnetism
300
What are some of the types of volcanoes?
What is shield, cinder, and composite.
400
What are the two most abundant atoms in Earths crust?
What is oxygen and silicon
400
What is the difference between cleavage and fracture?
What is cleavage is a cleave or break along flat, even surfaces, and fracture is uneven breakage of a mineral.
400
What theory finaly proves Wegener's hypothesis was right?
What is theory of plate tectonics.
400
Where are most divergent boundaries located along the crests of what?
What is mid-ocean ridges
400
What volcano erupted on May 18 1980?
What is Mount St. Helens
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