Rocks and minerals
Layers of the
Earth
Tectonics/Volcanoes
Plate Boundaries
Continental Drift
100
A mineral is differnt from coal.
What is inorganic?
100
The thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
100
A belt of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean.
What is ring of fire?
100
The plates move slowly apart.
What is divergent boundary?
100
He come up with the theory.
Who is Wegner?
200
A rock forming from cooling magma.
What is igneous?
200
Produces the Earth's magnetic field.
What is outer core?
200
The long tube that connects magma chamber and the surface.
What is pipe?
200
Plate boundary the produces earthquakes.
What is transform?
200
The reason Wegner's theory was rejected.
What is the was not solid proof?
300
Allows Geologists to determine the formation of each rock type.
What is the Rock Cycle?
300
Two layers that produce the heat that drives the convection currents in the Earth.
What is mantle and outer core?
300
Produces volcanoes when one plate slides under another plate.
What is subduction?
300
A land feature associated with oceanic plates diverging.
What is mid ocean ridges?
300
Two things that helped support continental drift.
What is mountains lining up, identical fossils and rocks, jig saw fit of continents, coal beds, climate similarities, or glacier deposits?
400
An igneous rock with large crystals and a rough texture containing several minerals.
What is granite?
400
__________ material is more ___________ causing it to sink.
What is cooler, dense?
400
A sleeping volcano.
What is dormant?
400
The land feature other than mountains that are produced by oceanic and continental plates converging.
What is deep ocean trenches?
400
In sea-floor spreading the oldest crust is located...
What is near the continents?
500
A mineral characteristic of the atomic arrangement.
What is crystal structure?
500
The mantle is made of hot rocks, iron and __________.
What is magnesium?
500
An area of molten magma in the middles of plates that has produced the Hawaiian islands.
What is hot spot?
500
Two things produced when land between two normal faults moves upward.
What is hanging wall and footwall?
500
The soft upper mantle in which the plates move around on.
What is asthenosphere?
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