Rocks & Minerals
Characteristics of Earth
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
100
Building blocks of minerals.
What is elements?
100
Geologist use this to indirectly obtain evidence about the Earth's interior.
What is seismic waves?
100
Earthquake waves that vibrate side to side and up and down, and move only through solids.
What is S waves?
100
Volcano belts form here.
What is boundaries of Earth's plates?
100
Evidence that supported the fit of the continents, having fossils on different continents, matching mountain belts, and climate evidence.
What is the theory of continental drift?
200
The definition of a mineral's streak.
What is a mineral's powder left on a piece of unglazed tile?
200
The correct order of the Earth's four layers beginning from the surface.
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
200
The type of seismic waves that are first to arrive at the surface.
What is P waves?
200
The long tube in the ground connecting the magma chamber.
What is pipe?
200
Technology used by scientists in the 1900s to map mid-ocean ridges.
What is sonar?
300
Rocks exhibit magnetism that is opposite to the current magnetic field are said to have this.
What is reverse polarity?
300
The asthenosphere is a part of this layer of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
300
The time frame aftershocks may occur after a large earthquake.
What is days or months?
300
The three types of volcanoes.
What is strato, cinder cone, and shield?
300
The three types of plate boundaries and there movement.
What is transform (sliding past each other), convergent (colliding together), and divergent (moving apart).
400
The reason iron-rich rocks show the location of the magnetic poles at the time of their formation.
What is magnetic memory?
400
The result of movements in the outer core of the Earth.
What is the magnetic field?
400
How the wave height of a tsunami changes as it comes to shore.
What is becomes larger than it was in the open ocean?
400
Highly explosive volcanoes have this type of magma.
What is high silica, high viscosity, and higher gas content?
400
Mineral-rich water, heated by newly formed oceanic crust that escapes through cracks in the ocean floor.
What is nodules?
500
The two most useful metamorphic rocks.
What is marble and slate?
500
The cause for the solid state of the Earth's core.
What is immense pressure?
500
Buildings designed to reduce the energy of an earthquake.
What is base-isolated?
500
Fast-moving lava with low viscosity and cooler, slow moving magma are called.
What is pahoehoe and aa?
500
The change occurring in the Pacific Ocean because of plate tectonics.
What is getting smaller?
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