Vocabulary
A rock composed of 2 or more minerals.
What is polymineralic?
This landscape is characterized by low relief.
What are plains (lowlands)?
This is often an unreliable property to determine a type of mineral.
What is color?
The name of the supercontinent that is theorized to have existed 200 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
The months of hurricane season.
What are the months of June through December?
Forces that push Earth's crust to a higher elevation.
What is uplifting?
This landscape is characterized by the greatest relief and often have faulted or tilted structure.
What are mountains (highlands)?
This rock is the only type of rock where fossils can be found.
What is a sedimentary rock?
When continents slowly move along the crust.
What is continental drift?
The term for how much space an object takes up.
What is volume?
Process that moves sediments to a new location.
What is erosion?
This landscape is relatively flat and has high elevation.
What is a plateau?
This rock is created by the rapid cooling and solidification of molten rock.
What is an igneous rock?
Examples of evidence of continental drift.
What are fossils? What are matching coastlines?
Experimental groups and control groups are part of this process.
What is the scientific method?
The solid, outer layer of the Earth.
What is the crust (lithosphere)?
The landscape name where Auburn, NY is located?
What is a lowland? What is the Erie-Lowland Lowland?
This rock is formed by extreme heat and pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
The term for how much matter is in an object.
What is mass?
When molten rock comes into contact with surrounding rock.
What is an igneous intrusion?
This rock has foliated bands.
What is a metamorphic rock?
Most earthquakes and volcanic activity in the United States occur in this region.
What is the west coast (California, Oregon, Washington)?