Layers of the Earth
Boundaries
Plate Tectonics
Rocks and Minerals
Misc.
100
The lithosphere is divided into about 12 or so of these that move around on the asthenosphere
What are tectonic plates?
100
This boundary is where two plates come together
What is convergent?
100
Giant continent that was here about 200,000,000 years ago
What is Pangaea?
100
A mineral has to have these four properties?
What is inorganic, solid, natural and crystalline?
100
When the center of a volcano collapses, this is formed
What is Caldera?
200
The layer below the crust
What is the mantle?
200
This layer is where two plates move away from each other
What is divergent?
200
One piece of evidence that showed that Pangaea existed?
What is sea-floor spreading, fossils, rocks, coal, fits together like a puzzle and glaciers
200
A piece of coal is not a mineral because
What is it is organic?
200
The two types of igneous rock
What is extrusive and intrusive?
300
The innermost layer of the earth
What is the core or inner core?
300
What the one earthquake said to the other earthquake (joke)
What is "That wasn't my fault?"
300
This is the area around the Pacific where volcanoes and earthquakes are common
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
5 properties of minerals used to identify minerals?
What is color, streak, luster, hardness, density, radioactivity, chemical reactivity?
300
The two types of molten rock?
What is lava and magma?
400
This form of heat energy transfer also makes the plates moves around
What is convection?
400
When two plates slide past each other in opposite directions
What is transform boundaries?
400
This is the divergent boundary that is in the middle of the Atlantic
What is Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
400
Capt. Hess used to this to investigate the bottom of the Pacific Ocean
What is SONAR?
400
There is a hot spot under this part of the US?
What is Yellowstone National Park and Hawaii?
500
This layer is the layer the lithospheric plates moves on
What is the asthenosphere?
500
Volcanoes do not often occur at these boundaries?
What is transform boundaries?
500
This is the order in which the different seismic waves occur
What is P-, S- and Surface waves?
500
This type of rock got its name from the Greek word meaning fire
What is igneous?
500
Four things that can be made into fossils
What is feces, bones, teeth, tracks, footprints, tunnels, borrows?
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