Volcanoes
This is the molten rock when still inside the volcano
What is magma?
This is the most destructive seismic wave
What is a Surface Wave?
This term means how mountains were formed
What is Orogeny?
This means not living, or, not from something living
What is inorganic?
This type of scientist studies (and visits!) volcanoes
What is a volcanologist?
This is the poisonous cloud of gases and ash that a volcano emits
What is Pyroclastic Flow?
This is the method that Seismologists use to locate the origin of an Earthquake
What is Triangulation?
This is when wind, water, or gravity change a landform into a different shape
What is Erosion?
These are Minerals that are formed only from one or two elements
What are Native Minerals?
This person's job is to create maps of places
What is a cartographer?
These are underwater volcanoes
What is a Seamount?
These are the boundaries over which earthquakes are most likely to occur
What are Tectonic Plate Boundaries
What is Deposition?
Native minerals can be classified in these two categories
What are metals and non-metals?
This is a scientist who studies Earthquakes
What is a Seismologist?
What are Hot Spots?
This is the formula for determining how long it was between the P-wave arrival and the S-wave arrival
What is S - P? (S minus P)
This landform is usually caused by divergent tectonic plates
What is a Valley (or, Rift Valley)
This mineral is a good conductor of electricity and heat
What is Copper?
This is a scientist who studies Minerals
What is a Geologist (or Mineralogist)?
This is the pattern of volcanoes that form around the pacific ocean
What is the ring of fire?
This term is used to describe a tectonic plate that is going underneath another tectonic plate
What is Subduction?
This landform is created by raised, hardened magma underneath soil
What is a Monadnock?
This term describes atoms arranged in a repeated structural pattern
What is Crystalline?
This is a person who has learned about Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Landforms, and Minerals, during second quarter!
What is a Hope Academy Scholar?