The Scientific Method/ Properties of Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rocks and Minerals
100
Geology
What is the study of the solid earth.
100
Continental Crust
What is thick, light crust found on land.
100
Tsunami
What is a massive wave created from an earthquake on the ocean floor.
100
Volcano
What is any structure which moves magma to the earth's surface.
100
Minerals
What is the substances that are solid, inorganic, and occur naturally.
200
Scientific Law
What is a conclusion to a scientific inquiry which can be proven.
200
Plate Tectonics
What is the theory that the earth's lithosphere is divided into several large plates which move slowly.
200
Ring of Fire
What is a region surrounding the Pacific Ocean where the majority of the earth's earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
200
Subduction
What is the process where one plate moves underneath another, and leads to the formation of volcanoes.
200
Igneous Rocks
What is the rocks form from the cooling and crystalizing of magma.
300
Theory
What is a conclusion to a scientific inquiry which can't be proven.
300
Seafloor Spreading
What is the diverging of oceanic crust and forming of new seafloor.
300
Mercalli Intensity
What is the amount of damage caused by an earthquake.
300
Hot Spots
What is regions underneath lithospheric plates which are abnormally hot and can cause volcanism in those regions.
300
Sedimentary Rock
What is the sediments are compacted and cemented together.
400
Equinox
What is the two dates per year which can direct sunlight strikes to the equator.
400
Continental Drift
What is the theory that the earths continents have drifted apart through time.
400
Seismograph
What is a device which measure seismic waves.
400
Mafic Lava
What is a dark colored, thin lava found primarily in oceanic crust.
400
Metamorphic Rock
What is the intense heat and pressure underground morphs the rock.
500
Solstice
What is the two dates per year which direct sunlight strikes the highest in the northern and southern hemisphere.
500
Pangaea
What is the proposed super continent 200 million years ago.
500
Fault Zones
What is regions where plates under stress move apart.
500
Aa
What is mafic lava which cools quickly and produces a jagged texture.
500
Stratification
What is rocks that forms in layers.
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