I have boundaries
Total Eclipse of the Heart
Rock On!
The mineral kingdom
Where am I?
Where is the world?
What's the weather like today?
Odds and Ends
100
A break in the crust where movement has occurred.
What is a fault?
100
What occurs when the moon blocks out sunlight from the Earth's surface?
What is a solar eclipse?
100
This can cool, harden, and form igneous rock.
What is magma or lava?
100
The way light reflects off a mineral.
What is luster?
100
I am 0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
100
Where am I if I am at 30 N 100W?
What is Texas?
100
I am characterized by bad weather, air rising and counterclockwise circulation.
What is a low pressure system?
100
Lines of equal temperature are called _________?
What are isotherms?
200
A boundary that causes seafloor spreading (plates are moving away from each other).
What is a divergent boundary?
200
Which moon phase occurs after the waxing crescent and before the waxing gibbous?
What is the First Quarter Moon?
200
These 2 things cause metamorphic rocks to form.
What are heat and pressure?
200
The scale that is used to measure the hardness of minerals
What is Moh's Hardness Scale
200
I am 0 degrees longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
Where am I if I am at 40 N 110W?
What is Utah?
200
I am characterized by good weather, air sinking and clockwise circulation.
What is high pressure?
200
I am located between the terrestrial planets and the gas giants?
What is the Asteroid Belt?
300
When two tectonic plates slip past each other, it is known as a strike-slip fault. The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of this.
What is a transform boundary?
300
Which two moon phases have the greatest effect on the tides?
What are the full moon and the new moon?
300
What happens if an igneous rock weathers? What rock does it turn into?
What is sedimentary rock?
300
Another way to identify minerals is that they leave the color of the powder behind when rubbed against a rough white tile.
What is streak?
300
I am 180 degrees longitude.
What is the International Date Line?
300
Where am I if I am at 15 S and 45 W
What is Brazil?
300
Four factors that effect climate.
What are latitude, elevation, bodies of water and position to mountains?
300
These providences have the most fossils.
What are Coastal Plain, Valley and Ridge and Appalachian Plateau?
400
When two plates bump into each other. Has subduction and collision zones, volcanoes, and trenches, and causes folded mountains.
What are convergent boundaries?
400
Occurs when Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon's surface.
What is a lunar eclipse?
400
Virginia's major rocks are?
Limestone, coal, and crushed stone (gravel)
400
The hardest mineral.
What is a diamond?
400
I am the hemisphere north of the equator.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
400
Where am I if I am at 60 N and 90 E?
What is Russia?
400
What is a warm front?
400
This map measure changes in elevation.
What is a topographic map?
500
The area around the Pacific plate where plate boundaries cause multiple volcanoes is known as _____________?
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
The moon phase that is not visible. Considered the start of the moon's cycle.
What is the new moon?
500
The type of sedimentary rock that can contain fossils.
What is organic sedimentary?
500
The five ways to test the properties of a mineral.
What is luster, streak, hardness, color, cleavage, or fracture
500
The Prime Meridian is also called ______________?
What is the Greenwich Meridian?
500
Where am I if I am at 23.5 S and 135 E?
What is Australia?
500
What is a stationary front?
500
Virginia's five providences are:
What are Appalachian Plateau, Valley & Ridge, Blue Ridge, Piedmont and Coastal Plain?