Scientific Method/
Properties of the Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rocks and Minerals
100
This is the 2nd step of the Scientific Method
What is Gather Information?
100
What is Supercontinent when all earth land was connected 200 million years ago.
Pangaea
100
What is it called when P Waves move faster than S waves and are compressional waves. They move similar to energy through a slinky.
Primary waves
100
What is melted rock located below the earths surface?
Magma
100
What are rocks that form underground?
Intrusive rocks.
200
What is the study of everything outside of the earth?
Astronomy
200
What is Superocean surrounding Pangaea 200 million years ago?
Panthalassa
200
What are earthquakes that occur in the middle of plates and not at plate boundaries. Occur rarely and are not as powerful.
Intraplate Earthquakes
200
What is a cloud of ash and dust when a composite volcano errupts?
Ash cloud
200
What are smooth and shiny rocks?
Glassy rocks
300
What is the study of the atmosphere?
Meteorolgy
300
What is many of the Earths continents fit together like a puzzle?
Shape of Coastlines
300
What are Rayleigh Waves and Love Waves cause the surface of the Earth to shake and cause damage.
Surface waves
300
What is a tube where magma rises through a volcano?
Conduit
300
What dissolved minerals harden after water evaporates?
Chemical
400
What is the study of the earths ocean and water?
Oceanology
400
What are On adjacent (matching) coastlines ancient fossils were found to match. Landlocked animals which cannot swim or fly provide the best evidence
Fossils
400
What is a device used to record and measure seismic waves
Seisomograph
400
What is the layer of earth that the volcano sits on?
Crust
400
What rock is made from once- living things?
Organic Rock
500
What is a proposed explanation?
Hypothesis
500
What plates move side by side past one another which can causes earthquakes. Ex. San Andreas Fault in California
Transform boundaries
500
What is a scale that measures the strength of seismic waves based on wave aplitude?
Richter magnitude scale
500
What is the opening where lava erupts onto the surface?
Vent
500
What are rocks that form underground?
Intrusive rocks
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