The Scientific Method / Properties of Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rocks and Minerals
100
oceanography
What is the study of the earth's oceans?
100
pangaea
What is the supercontinent formed 200 million years ago?
100
P waves
What are the primary waves called?
100
lava
What is the magma called after it erupts?
100
igneous rock
What kind of rocks are formed from cooling and crystallization of magma?
200
hypothesis
What is a prediction based on observation and logic?
200
oceanic crust
What is the crust on the ocean floor called?
200
S waves
What are the secondary waves?
200
vent
What is the opening where magma erupts called?
200
squeezed together
What is compaction?
300
inner core
What is the innermost layer?
300
transform
What is the boundary where two plates slide past eachother?
300
Pacific Ocean
What ocean does the Ring of Fire surround?
300
felsic lava
What kind of lava is light colored and thick?
300
gluing sediments together
What is cementation?
400
axis
What is the imaginary line which the earth spins apon?
400
convergent
What is the boundary where two plates move toward one another?
400
seismograph
What is the device that measures seismic waves called?
400
aa
What kind of lava cools quickly and is very jagged?
400
1-10
What does the Mohs hardness scale go up to?
500
scientific law
What is a conclusion which can not be proven?
500
subduction zone
What is the region where one plate moves underneath another?
500
tsunami
What is the massive wave created from a earthquake called?
500
mafic lava
What kind of lava is dark colored?
500
when a mineral breaks along smooth, flat surfaces
What is cleavage?
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