Minerals
Rock Cycle
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Plate Tectonics
100
A naturally occurring,usually inorganic solid that has a definite structure?
What is a mineral
100
The process in which a object is broken down.
What is weathering?
100
A vent or fissure in Earth's surface through which magma and gases are expelled.
What is a volcano?
100
An area where the earthquake will be felt the strongest.
What is an epicenter?
100
The supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
What is a Pangaea
200
A inorganic natural solid substance that has a definite geometric shape.
What is a crystal?
200
The process in which a object is moved.
What is erosion?
200
A opening of a volcano.
What is a vent?
200
A place within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
What is a focus?
200
Where two or more tectonic plates meet.
What is a plate tectonic boundary?
300
The way in which a mineral reflects light.
What is luster?
300
The process by which sediment comes to rest.
What is deposition?
300
A location where a column of extremely hot mantle rock called a mantle plume rises through the asthenosphere.
What is a hot spot?
300
When rock returns back to its original shape after elastic deformation.
What is elastic rebound?
300
A dense tectonic plate that subducts beneath another less dense plate. The leading edge is colder.
What is a slab pull?
400
The color of a mineral in it's powdered form.
What is streak?
400
The series of processes in which rocks change from one form to another.
What is the rock cycle?
400
A series of extremely long waves that can travel across the ocean at speeds of up to 800 km/h.
What is a tsunami?
400
The process by which rock becomes deformed and changes shape due to stress.
What is deformation?
400
The lithosphere divided into three pieces.
What is a tectonic plate?
500
the manner in which a mineral breaks along either curved or irregular surfaces
What is a fracture?
500
What is a metamorphic rock is melted called?
What is magma
500
When two tectonic plates move away from each other is called..?
What is a divergent plate boundary
500
What is it called when there is shaking of the ground caused by two plates passing each other?
What is an earthquake
500
A theory made by Alfred Wegener stating that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core.
What is the theory of continental drift?
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