A theory that the earths continents have rifted apart through time
What is Continental drift?
100
A device which measures seismic waves
What is seismograph?
100
Any structure which moves magma to the earth's surface
What is a volcano?
100
Magma, crystallization, igneous rock, weathering and erosion, sediment, cementation and compaction, sedimentary rock, heat and pressure, metamorphic rock, melt, magma
What is the rock cycle?
200
Using Senses to Analyze an Event
What is Observation
200
The proposed super continent 200 million years ago
What is Pangaea?
200
Primary waves
What waves arrive first?
200
Molten rock found under the surface of the earth
What is Magma?
200
Forms in layers
What is Stratification?
300
Theory
What is a scientific inquiry (question Which can't be proven called?
300
Where two plates move apart from one another
What is divergent Boundary?
300
Secondary waves
What waves arrive second?
300
molten rock which erupts onto the earth's surface and begins to cool
What is Lava?
300
least reliable method of identifying minerals
What is color?
400
Hypothesis
What is a prediction based on observation and logic called?
400
Where two plates move toward one another
What is Convergent Boundary?
400
The straightening of plates after plates under stress snap, the cause of the majority of seismic waves
What is Elastic Rebound theory?
400
Large volcanoes which produce explosive felsic lava
What is a composite volcano?
400
When a mineral breaks along smooth, flat surfaces
What is Cleavage?
500
Scientific Law
What is conclusion to a scientific inquiry (question) which can be proven called?
500
Where two plates slide past one another
What is transform boundary?
500
Mercalli intensity
What is the amount of damage caused by an earthquake called?
500
A feature produced when an emptied magma chamber causes a volcano to collapse