Rocks & Minerals
This is the property of splitting easily along a planar surface.
What is cleavage?
The movement of Earth around the sun once a year called Earth’s
What is Revolution?
This type of boundary create volcanoes by subduction of the Earth's crust.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
These are the three main gases that cause global warming.
What is Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Water Vapor?
This region in New York State is underlain by salt.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
This is the scientific term for the cementation and compaction of sediments over time to create the sedimentary rocks we have today.
What is lithification?
This type of eclipse happens when the moon is covering the sun and the Earth is in the moon’s shadow
What is Solar Eclipse?
This process in the Earth's mantle drives plate tectonics.
What is convection currents?
This is the result of carbon dioxide and water mixing, it makes this type of precipitation.
What is the acid rain?
This type of rock is considered a middle ground between mafic and felsic.
What is intermediate?
Pressure and heat can cause rocks to have this randomized pattern.
What is non-foliation?
These are the two factors determine the force of gravity between two objects
What is mass and distance?
This is the point on Earth's surface directly above the earthquakes origin.
What is the epicenter?
This is the natural process that Earth has in order to sustain life. It is not always a bad thing!
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
1010.3mb will be written like this on your weather station model according to your ESSRT.
What is 103?
This is the chart that explains the solidification and crystalization in igneous rocks.
What is the Bowen's Reaction Series?
This occurs twice a year when the noon sun is directly overhead at the equator. This word means “equal nights”
What is equinox?
Wegner devloped this idea that explains how Pangea broke up into the continents we know today.
What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
This is the type of feedback loop that is compounting the little effects as time goes on, usually resulting in out of control changes
What is a positive feedback loop?
This is the rock that is created by the cementation and compaction of pebbles.
What is Conglomerate?
These are the four different classifications of ignous rocks.
What is mafic, ultra mafic, intermediate, and felsic?
When the sun is farthest north or south of the equator is known as this vocabulary word
What is a solstice?
The tsunami wave builds up when the water wave meets the shore line because of this force.
What is the force of friction?
Meeting the present needs without compromising the future of our life here on Earth.
What is sustainability?
This mountainous region of New York State has lots of mineral deposits such as zinc, garnet, silver, lead, and rare Earth Elements.
What is the Adirondack region?