Rocks and Minerals
Geologic Time
Energy and Resources
Plate Tectonics
Scientific Investigation
100
Rocks that form from pieces of other rocks.
What are sedimentary rocks?
100
Where older rock tend to be in layers of rock (towards the top or bottom).
What is at/near the bottom?
100
Fossil fuels are classified as this type of resource because they are not being replenished with use.
What are nonrenewable energy resources?
100
Where almost all volcanoes and earthquakes occur.
Where is near a tectonic plate boundary?
100
Scientific instruments to measure volume and mass separately.
What are the graduated cylinder and three-beam balance?
200
Any evidence of dead life, including imprints, bones, and footprints.
What is a fossil?
200
Gases that causes climate change, released in abundance by humans, warming the atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide or methane?
200
Energy resources that do not run out or replenish when used.
What is renewable energy?
200
Mid-Ocean volcanic ridges are caused by this tectonic boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
200
The scientific method step that is after and tests the hypothesis.
What is the experiment?
300
The powder color left behind by a mineral.
What is streak?
300
Relative age (old/young) of magma intruding into layers.
What is young?
300
Two fossil fuels that are mined in Virginia.
What are natural gas and coal?
300
Evidence that the continents move, and once formed a supercontinent named Pangaea.
What are identical rocks, fossils, and mountains between continents?
300
The formula to calculate the density of a mineral sample.
What is mass divided by volume?
400
The presence of many metamorphic rocks in Virginia is an indication that the area has been subjected to -
What is intense heat and pressure?
400
The time it takes for half of a radioactive isotope to decay into a more stable element.
What is the half-life?
400
Type of replenishing energy from the flow of water in rivers.
What is hydroelectric energy?
400
The process of one plate being pulled under another, forming a trench, then melting to form volcanoes.
What is subduction?
400
The metric units for mass and volume.
What are grams (g) and milliliters (L)?
500
Property shared by gemstones that prevents them from being scratched by softer minerals.
What is hardness?
500
Plant process, performed by algae, that created oxygen in the atmosphere for complex life forms
What is photosynthesis?
500
Sand, gravel, and clay are mined from this physiographic providence of Virginia.
What is the Coastal Plain?
500
The resulting features on Earth's surface from oceanic-oceanic and continental-oceanic crusts colliding.
What are volcanoes and a trench?
500
The variable that you change to prompt a change in the dependent variable.
What is the independent variable?
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