PLATE TECTONICS
EARTHQUAKE
WATER CYCLE
ROCK CYCLE
MINERALS
100
The names of the four layers of the earth.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle and crust
100
The fastest but weakest wave.
What is the P or Primary wave?
100
Rain, Snow, Hail, Sleet or Drizzle
What is precipitation?
100
Rocks are made of these.
What are minerals?
100
Rubbing a mineral across a white, unglazed tile produces this.
What is STREAK TEST?
200
Causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents
200
Slowest but strongest wave.
What is the S or Secondary Wave
200
Water entering the ground
What is infiltration?
200
This is how rocks are classified.
What is the origin (how they were formed)?
200
When a mineral breaks along a flat surface it shows this property.
What is cleavage?
300
The Appalachian and Himalayan Mountains were formed by which type of boundary?
What is convergent.
300
Scale of 1-10 measuring Earthquakes
What is the Richter scale
300
Ice turning into a gas without melting
What is sublimation?
300
These are rocks formed from the solidification of magma.
What are igneous rocks?
300
This scale is based upon the relative hardness of common minerals and objects.
What is Mohs' scale of hardness?
400
This is created when a oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.
What is a subduction zone.
400
Line in the earth caused by an earthquake
What is the fault line?
400
Water leaving a river into an ocean
What is a runoff?
400
These rocks are formed through compaction and cementation.
What are sedimentary rocks?
400
Mineral properties are determined by the arrangement of these.
What are atoms?
500
CT River Valley was formed this way.
What is a divergent boundary?
500
California is known for this line in the ground.
What is the San Andreas Fault Line
500
Evaporation, Transpiration & Sublimation
What is a form of evaporation?
500
Metamorphic rocks can be naturally made from these types of rock.
What are sedimentary, igneous and Metamorphic rocks?
500
A diamond
What is the strongest mineral?
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