Rock Cycle
Minerals
Plate Tectonics
Volcanos
Earthquakes
100
This series of processes in which rocks change from one type to another
What is the Rock Cycle?
100
A naturally occurring , usually inorganic that has a definite structure.
What is a Mineral?
100
Large scale movements of the earths lithosphere
What is Plate Tectonics?
100
Any place where gas, ash, or melted rock come out of the ground.
What is a Volcano?
100
Ground movements that occur when fault blocks move and release energy.
What is an earthquake?
200
Rocks formed when lava or magma cool
What is Igneous Rock?
200
A solid geometric form that results from repeating patterns of atoms
What is a crystal?
200
The continents joined as a single large landmass
What is Pangea?
200
Molten rock within the earth
What is Magma?
200
The place where the first movement of an earthquake happens
What is the focus?
300
Rock changed by heat and pressure
What is metamorphic rock?
300
The way a surface reflects light
What is Luster?
300
The different pieces of the lithosphere
What are tectonic plates
300
molten rock outside the earth
What is Lava?
300
Directly above the focus on the earths surface
What is the epicenter
400
Rocks formed when sediments are cemented together
What is sedimentary rock
400
The color of a minerals powdered form
What is Streak
400
When molten rock rises through the crust to create new oceanic crust
What is Sea-floor spreading
400
Opening of a volcano
What is a Vent?
400
A break in the earths crust along which blocks of rock move
What is a fault
500
where deep set of cracks form
What is a rift zone
500
The tendency of a mineral to split
What is clevage
500
What is mountain range under water
What is the mid ocean ridge?
500
A place where extremely hot plume of mantle rock called a Mantle Plume rises through the asthenosphere
What is a hot spot
500
When the earth snaps back to it original state after an earthquake
What is elastic rebound
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