Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
Earth Interior
Rock Cycle
Minerals
100
This boundary has two plates colliding into each other.
What is Convergent Boundaries.
100
Melted silicate (rock) that exists beneath the surface of the Earth.
What is Magma.
100
What state of matter is the inner core in?
A solid, because of its composition of heavy metals.
100
This rock type is formed from the cooling of magma and lava.
What is Igneous Rock.
100
What is the least helpful mineral property?
What is Color.
200
Where two plates separate/diverge from each other.
What is Divergent Boundary.
200
This type of lava is characterized by a smooth, billowy, or ropy surface. Its flows tend to be relatively thin, only a few inches thick?
What is Pahohoe Lava.
200
Earth layer known as the soft layer (weak shell) of the mantle.
What is the Asthenosphere.
200
This type of rock is formed from the compaction of sediments.
What is Sedimentary Rock.
200
This identifying property is described as how a mineral shines.
What is luster.
300
Where two plates slide past each other.
What is a Transform Boundary.
300
Broad dome-shaped volcano that covers the largest area.
What is Shield Volcano.
300
Which earth layer is completely a liquid?
The outer core.
300
This type of rock is created through intense heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic rock.
300
This identifying property is described as the mineral's resistance to scratch.
What is Hardness.
400
This plate boundary creates volcanoes and mountains.
What is Convergent Boundaries.
400
Cinder Cone volcanoes has this type of eruption.
What is Strombolian eruption.
400
Where is the Moho located?
It is a boundary that is between the crust and mantle.
400
The erosion of different rock types is described as...
What is Weathering.
400
Silicates are minerals that have what chemical composition.
What is SiO.
500
Where new crust is being made.
What is at a Divergent Boundary.
500
Most explosive kind of volcanic eruption.
Plinian eruption.
500
Define Convection
It is the rising and sinking of molten rock material in the mantle due to different densities. This is the driving force of plate tectonics.
500
In the process of creating sedimentary rock, what do we call the process of cementing sediments together?
What is lithification.
500
What special property helps to identify Halite minerals?
What is taste.
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