Rocks
Volcanoes
Rock Cycle
Minerals
Plate Tectonics
100
Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary
What are the three main types of rock?
100
A rupture in the Earth's crust that hot lava and ash come out of.
What is a volcano?
100
A process of one type of rock becoming another or even magma.
What is the rock cycle?
100
A natural substance found in the Earth's crust.
What is a mineral?
100
The Earth's crust and upper mantel are broken into plates that sometimes touch or rub next to each other.
What is plate tectonics?
200
Characteristics: Gas bubbles or a Glass like surface
What are igneous rocks' characteristics?
200
A volcano that looks like a shield flipped over on the ground.
What is a shield volcano?
200
It once again became magma.
What happens when igneous rock melts?
200
When magma crystallizes or when minerals dissolve in water and cool.
How do minerals form?
200
The super-continent when all plates were together.
What is Pangea?
300
They are found inside or outside the Earth by volcanoes.
Where are igneous rocks found?
300
A volcano that looks almost like a cone with very steep sides.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
The loose sediment becomes a sedimentary rock.
What happens when loose sediment gets compacted down?
300
Appearance, Properties, Color, Luster, or streak
How are minerals identified?
300
The plates all sort of fit together and same fossils on different continent.
What is some evidence of continental drift?
400
Characteristics: Sand, Pebbles, or fossils
What are sedimentary rocks' characteristics?
400
A volcano built up of many layers of hardened lava.
What is a composite volcano?
400
The sedimentary rock becomes metamorphic rock.
What happens when sedimentary rock is combined with heat and pressure?
400
Mineroligists
Who studies minerals?
400
When two plates collide, and slide under each other.
What is subduction?
500
Characteristics: Ribbon like layers
What are metamorphic rocks' characteristics?
500
A zone or circle of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
The metamorphic rock melts into magma.
What happens when metamorphic rock melts?
500
Lead in pencils, Medicines, Coal for heating things, ect....
How are minerals used in every day products?
500
Earthquakes
What happens when two plates rub against each other?
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