Scientific Method/ Properties of the Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rocks and Minerals
100
What is a Hypothesis?
What is a proposed explanation?
100
What are Mid-Ocean Ridges?
What is a mountain chain underwater formed as new magma rises to the surface.
100
What is the Ring of Fire?
What is the nickname of the region bordering the Pacific Ocean where 80% of the Earth's earthquakes occur?
100
What is a volcano?
What is any structure that brings magma from below the surface and and erupts onto the surface?
100
What are intrusive rocks?
What is rocks that are found inside the Earth?
200
What is a law?
What is a conclusion that is proven over and over again?
200
What is Pangaea?
What is a super continent when all Earth land was connected 200 million years ago?
200
What is a seismograph?
What is a device used to record and measure seismic waves?
200
What is an ash cloud?
What is a cloud of ash and dust when a composite volcano erupts?
200
What is compaction?
What is squeezed together?
300
What are the four properties of the Earth?
What is Geology, Astronomy, Oceanography and Meterology
300
What are divergent boundaries?
What is plates that move away from each other?
300
What is a tsunami?
What is a massive wave produced by large earthquakes on the ocean floor which cause extreme flooding?
300
What is subduction?
What is when one plate moves under another causing magma to be produced and makes volcanoes?
300
What is follated texture?
What is minerals are compressed and flattened so it looks like stripes?
400
What is an oblate spheroid?
What is a sphere wider at the equator due to fast rotation?
400
Who is Alfred Wegener?
What is a meteorologist who developed a theory of continental drift?
400
What is a Hypo center?
What is the point underground where the stress is released along the fault and seismic waves are created?
400
What is a shield volcano?
What is a very wide volcano with very runny lava, non explosive?
400
What is a silicate?
What is any mineral containing silicon and oxygen?
500
What are the 5 steps in the Scientific Method?
What is 1. State the Problem. 2. Gather Information. 3. Form a hypothesis. 4. Test the hypothesis. 5. State the conclusion
500
Who is Harry Hess?
What is a geologist who discovered the mid ocean ridge. He later took samples of the mid ocean ridge and discovered seafloor spreading.
500
What is a intraplate earthquake?
What is an earthquake that occurs in the middle of a plate, occur rarely?
500
What is Mt St Helens?
What is located in Washington State, composite volcano, erupted in 1980 causing a huge explosion big enough to take off part of the mountain?
500
What are characteristics of all minerals?
What is solid, inorganic, occur naturally, orderly crystalline structure and same chemical composition.
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