Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rock Cycle
Plate Tectonics
Various
100
_______ seismic stations are needed to locate the epicenter of the earthquake.
What is 3 or more?
100
This magma has a low silica content and low viscosity.
What is basaltic?
100
This process has to occur for a sedimentary rock to become an igneous rock.
What is melting?
100
This is created at a continental continental convergent plate boundary.
What is Folded Mountain Range?
100
An intrusive igneous rock will form what size crystals.
What is large crystals?
200
The record produced by the instrument recording the earthquake vibrations.
What is seismogram?
200
This magma has a high silica content and a high viscosity.
What is rhyolitic?
200
This process has to occur for a sedimentary rock to become a metamorphic rock.
What is heat & pressure?
200
This is created at a convergent oceanic-continental plate boundary.
What is Volcanic Mountain Range?
200
The 3 main groups of igneous rock based on mineral composition are _______.
What are felsic, mafic & intermediate?
300
This seismic wave does not travel through liquid.
What is s-wave?
300
Some volcanoes are located from from plate boundaries and are the result of _______.
What is hot spots?
300
These processes have to occur for an igneous rock to become a sedimentary rock (name at least 4).
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, burial compaction, cementation?
300
This is created at a divergent plate boundary on the seafloor.
What is Ocean ridge?
300
The most abundant compound in magma.
What is silica?
400
The difference between the arrival times of the p & s waves can be used to find this.
What is distance to the epicenter?
400
This type of volcano is large and is associated with explosive eruptions.
What is composite/stratovolcano?
400
Igneous rocks form from this.
What is magma/lava?
400
At this plate boundary the crust is not created or destroyed only fractured.
What is transform?
400
The difference between magma and lava.
What is location?
500
The outer core is ________.
What is liquid?
500
These 3 factors influence the formation of magma _____.
What is temperature, water, pressure (also composition)?
500
The 2 types of igenous rock (based on where they formed).
What is extrusive & intrusive?
500
This is what caused the formation of the Ring of Fire volcanoes.
What is convergent plate boundaries?
500
The reason rhyolitic magma erupts more violently than basaltic magma.
What is silica content (also large amount of trapped gasses)
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