misc
volcanic activity
Wegener/Plates
earthquakes
rocks and minerals
100
Which of the following would be one of the interacting parts in a weather system?
What are clouds?
100
A magma’s viscosity is directly related to its ____.
What is silica content?
100
One kind of evidence that supports Wegener’s hypothesis is that ____.
What is fossils of the same organism have been found on different continents?
100
A seismogram shows that P waves travel ____.
What is faster than S waves?
100
What is the uneven breakage of a mineral called?
What is fracture?
200
Earth’s thin, rocky outer layer is its ____.
What is crust?
200
What is true about all plutons?
What is they form below the surface?
200
What was the main reason Wegener’s continental drift hypothesis was rejected?
What is he could not provide a mechanism for the movement of the continents?
200
What is the minimum number of seismic stations that is needed to determine the location of an earthquake’s epicenter?
What is three?
200
Sedimentary rocks with ripple marks suggest that the rocks formed ____.
What is along a beach or streambed?
300
The age of the rocks in the ocean basins was determined by ____.
What is ocean drilling?
300
Most shield volcanoes have grown from the ocean floor to form ____.
What are islands?
300
According to the theory of plate tectonics, ____.
What is the lithosphere is divided into plates?
300
Major earthquakes are sometimes preceded by smaller earthquakes called ____.
What are foreshocks?
300
Which of the following properties is generally the least useful in identifying minerals?
What is color?
400
The volcanic landforms at divergent ocean plate boundaries are ____.
What are ocean ridges?
400
A volcanic bomb is a ____.
What is piece of semi-molten rock ejected as glowing lava?
400
In the plate tectonic theory, a plate can be made up of ____.
What are both continental and oceanic lithosphere?
400
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 occurred along what fault?
What is the San Andreas Fault?
400
The appearance or quality of light reflected from the surface of a mineral is called ____.
What is luster?
500
What are the two sources of energy for the Earth system?
What are the sun and the Earth's interior?
500
The Hawaiian Islands are associated with what type of volcanism?
What is intraplate volcanism?
500
At a transform fault boundary, ____.
What is lithosphere is neither created nor destroyed?
500
Earthquakes are usually associated with ____.
What are faults?
500
The resistance of a mineral to being scratched is called ____.
What is hardness?
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