ROCK & ROLL
STRATA
FOSSILS & MINERALS
SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL
ERUPTIONS
100
Pieces of the lithosphere that moves around on the aesthenosphere.
What is plate tectonics?
100
Caused by ice, abrasion, wind, water, gravity, plants, and animals.
What is mechanical weathering?
100
A naturally formed inorganic solid that has a definite crystalline structure.
What is a mineral?
100
Seismology
What is the study of earthquakes?
100
Material that erupts from a volcano.
What is pyroclastic?
200
An arrangement of rock layers in which the oldest rocks are at the bottom and is used to identify the age of similar rocks.
What is the geologic column?
200
Four ways that the rock layers become disturbed.
What are faults, intrusions, folding, and tilting?
200
Five ways to identify a mineral.
What is color, luster, streak, cleavage & fracture, and hardness?
200
Where most earthquakes occur.
What is near tectonic plate boundaries?
200
Pillow lava
What kind of lava is formed as round lumps underwater?
300
Igneous rock
What is formed when hot, liquid rock or magma cools and solidifies?
300
Chemical weathering
What is weathering that is a result of chemical processes such as water, weak acids, and air?
300
A method of determining the age of rock by estimating the percentages of the radioactive isotopes to the stable isotopes.
What is radiometric dating?
300
Three types of seismic waves
What is P waves, S waves, and surface waves?
300
The three types of volcanic formations
What is cinder cone, shield volcano and composite volcano?
400
The three main classifications of rock.
What is metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous?
400
The Five Layers of the earth
What is lithosphere, aesthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, and inner core?
400
A method of identifying a mineral by it's hardness.
What is the Moh's hardness scale?
400
Boundaries that are formed between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
What are divergent boundaries?
400
Craters, calderas, and lava plateau
What are three landforms resulting from volcanoes?
500
Metamorphic Rock
What is formed from all 3 types of rock when it undergoes changes due to heat, pressure or both?
500
A break in the earth's crust along which blocks of the crust slide relative to one another.
What is a fault?
500
Five places to find fossils.
What is rocks, amber, asphalt, frozen tundra, and petrification?
500
A seismic wave that causes particles of rock to move in a side to side direction.
What are S waves?
500
The kind of lava that cools quickly and is stiff and doesn't travel far from the eruption.
What is blocky lava?
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