Rocks
Movement on Earth
Water on Earth
Waves
Science Names
100
A penny being scratched across the surface of a mineral is a test for this.
What is HARDNESS?
100
These movements in the mantle provide the force to move tectonic plates.
What are CONVECTION CURRENTS?
100
A bend in a winding river is called this.
What is a MEANDER?
100
A wave caused by an earthquake.
What is a TSUNAMI?
100
He is famous because he said that the continents were once together.
Who is Alfred WEGENER?
200
Rocks from volcanoes are these kind of rock.
What is IGNEOUS?
200
The type of boundary where two plate slide by one another.
What is TRANSFORM boundary?
200
When a meander is cut off from the main river, this is formed.
What is an OXBOW LAKE?
200
Highest point of a wave?
What is CREST?
200
He is famous for his three laws of motion.
Who is Isaac NEWTON?
300
A rock that was changed from a previous rock is called this.
What is a METAMORPHIC rock?
300
Mountains are formed by this type of plate boundary.
What is CONVERGENT boundary?
300
The land area from where water moves into a river is called this.
What is a DRAINAGE BASIN or WATERSHED?
300
The lowest point of a wave.
What is TROUGH?
300
The effect of moving objects curving due to Earth's rotation is named after him.
Who is CORIOLIS?
400
These two processes create sedimentary rock.
What are COMPACTION and CEMENTATION?
400
The feature is created in the Atlantic Ocean by a divergent boundary.
What is the MID-OCEAN RIDGE?
400
When deposits are left where a river empties into a large body of water, this is formed.
What is a DELTA?
400
The distance between two crests.
What is WAVELENGTH?
400
The area in space where many planetoids circle the sun is named after him.
Who is KUIPER?
500
Rocks are classified by how they do this.
What is FORM?
500
When one tectonic plate moves beneath another is called this.
What is SUBDUCTION?
500
When deposits from a river are left at the base of a mountain, this is formed.
What is an ALLUVIAL FAN?
500
The distance between the top of the crest and the bottom of the trough is called this.
What is WAVE HEIGHT?
500
The name of a giant landmass that once existed on Earth 200 million years ago.
What is PANGAEA?
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