Rocks
Plate Tectonics
Interior of the Earth
Weather and Climate
Minerals
100
In a stratigraphic or geologic column, the youngest rock is where?
What is At the top
100
What is the scale used to measure Earthquakes? Richter
What is Richter Scale
100
What are the three main layers of the Earth?
What is Crust, mantle, core
100
A change of state from gas to liquid in the water cycle?
What is condensation
100
What kind of structure does a mineral have?
What is Crystalline
200
What are the name of rocks that are formed when magma or lava cools and becomes solid.
What is igneous.
200
The type of boundary where plates move away from one another?
What is divergent
200
Which is the only layer of the interior of the Earth that is composed of liquid?
What is outer core.
200
What drives the water cycle?
What is The sun’s energy
200
What does hardness measure?
What is Resistance to being scratched
300
When limestone is subjected to heat and pressure, marble forms. What type of rock is marble?
What is metamorphic.
300
What type of plate boundary is associated with a subduction zone?
What is convergent.
300
How do we know what the interior of the Earth is like?
What is seismic waves.
300
Why do we have seasons?
What is The 23.5 degree tilt of the earth
300
In order to find this, you would scrape the mineral onto a white tile to see the color of its powder.
What is Streak
400
__________ is broken down fragments of rock from weathering and deposition.
What is sediment
400
What type of plate boundary is responsible for the creation of mountains?
What is convergent.
400
The uppermost mantle, along with the overlying crust are a rigid layer known as?
What is lithosphere
400
Which layer of the atmosphere to we live in?
What is troposphere
400
What is luster?
What is the way light interacts with the surface of a mineral
500
This term describes the process of sediments being transported by wind, rain, or ice.
What is erosion
500
Who is credited with developing the Continental Drift Theory?
What is Alfred Wegner
500
Plate movement is thought to be caused by convection currents in the ___?
What is asthenosphere.
500
The temperature at which more condensation than evaporation occurs.
What is Dew point
500
What is the scale to measure hardness?
What is Moh’s Hardness Scale
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