Scientific Method/Properties of Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rocks and Minerals
100
The imaginary line which the Earth spins upon.
What is axis?
100
The proposed supercontinent 200 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
100
First waves to arrive after an earthquake.
What is P waves?
100
Erupts from the volcano onto Earth's surface and begins to cool.
What is lava?
100
Gluing sediments together.
What is cementation?
200
A conclusion to a scientific question that can't be proven.
What is a theory?
200
A mountain chained formed due to seafood spreading.
What is Mid-ocean ridge?
200
A massive wave created from an earthquake on the ocean floor.
What is tsunami?
200
Dark colored, thin lava found primarily in oceanic crust.
What is mafic lava?
200
Rocks formed from the cooling and crystallizing of magma
What is igneous rock?
300
The study of Earth's atmosphere.
What is Meteorology?
300
Where two plates slide past each other.
What is transform boundary?
300
The measurement of energy in seismic waves.
What is magnitude?
300
Felsic lava that is ejected in solid fragments of rock.
What is pyroclastic material?
300
When a mineral breaks along smooth, flat surfaces.
What is cleavage?
400
The layer of Earth that is solid iron, due to intense pressure.
What is Inner Core?
400
Region where one plate moves underneath another.
What is subduction zone?
400
The amount of damage caused by an earthquake.
What is Mercalli Scale?
400
A feature produced when the vent of a volcano is blown apart during eruption.
What is crater?
400
Intense heat and pressure underground morph the rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
500
The Earth's shape, slightly wider at the Equator due to rotation.
What is Oblate Spheroid?
500
The movement of heat through the asthenosphere which causes plates above to move.
What is convection currents?
500
The straightening of plates after plates snap under stress, cause of majority of seismic waves.
What is Elastic Rebound Theory?
500
A feature produced when an emptied magma chamber causes a volcano to collapse.
What is caldera?
500
When a rock forms in layers
What is stratification?
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