Earth Layers
The state of matter of both the lithosphere and the inner core.
What is a solid?
This lithospheric plate incorporates Europe and Asia.
What is Eurasia?
Rocks are classified based on ____.
What is "the way they form"?
The physical property of a mineral that a streak test shows.
What is the color of a mineral's powder?
Equipment needed to determine the density of a rock or mineral.
What are a triple beam balance and a graduated cylinder?
The two most abundant elements in the Earth's crust.
What are oxygen and silicon?
Land form created at a subduction zone with two oceanic plates and also at a hot spot.
What is a volcanic island?
Rocks formed when weathering and erosion create sediments that get cemented and compacted together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
The physical property of a mineral that is determined by scratching.
What is hardness?
The energy resource that is available where magma is close to the surface of the Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
Covers most of the Earth's surface.
What is water?
Results from movement of the Earth's crust.
What are earthquakes?
Rocks formed from extreme heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
Evidence that a mineral has the chemical property of reactivity to acid.
What is bubbling?
When considering a volcanic eruption, potential energy is greatest _______an eruption and kinetic energy is greatest _______an eruption.
What is "before" and "during"?
The layer of earth that is semi-solid and moves, causing tectonic plates to collide, separate and slide past each other.
What is the asthenosphere?
The string of volcanic mountains formed on the ocean floor where two plates pull apart..
What is the midocean ridge?
Rocks that form from magma that has cooled and hardened.
What are igneous rocks?
Two ways minerals can break.
What are cleavage and fracture?
Layer of earth in which convection currents are found.
What is the mantle?
Earthquake waves were used to determine the location of _____.
What are Earth layers?
The process that causes high mountains to form and a second process that causes their peaks to be rounded.
What are plates colliding and erosion?
The type of rocks can undergo weathering and erosion to create sediments?
What are sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous?
The way light reflects off the surface of a mineral.
What is luster?
78% of the Earth's atmosphere is _____ and 21% of it is _____.
What are nitrogen and oxygen? (Answers must be in this order)