Minerals
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Earth's Layers
Rock Cycle
100
A solid geometric form that results from a repeating pattern or atoms or molecules.
What is a Crystal?
100
A place within earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
What is The Focus?
100
Any place where gas, ash, or melted rock come out of the ground.
What is a Volcano?
100
The movement of matter that results from differences in density caused by variations in temperature.
What is Convection?
100
The process by which sediment comes to rest.
What is Deposition?
200
A substance made up of molecules of 2 or more elements.
What is a Compound?
200
Ground movements that occur when blocks of rock in Earth move suddenly and release energy.
What is an Earthquake?
200
Melted rock.
What is Magma?
200
The outermost rigid layer of Earth.
What is the Lithosphere?
200
Forms when lava or magma cools.
What is Igneous Rock?
300
The way a surface reflects light.
What is Luster?
300
Where two or more plates meet.
What is Tectonic Plate Boundary?
300
Magma that has reached earth's surface.
What is Lava?
300
A layer of weak of soft mantle that is made of rock that flows slowly.
What is the Asthenosphere?
300
Forms when minerals that form from solutions or sediment from older rock get pressed together.
What is Sediment Rock?
400
The color of the powdered form of a mineral.
What is Streak?
400
The process by which rock becomes deformed and changes shape under stress.
What is Deformation?
400
The opening of a volcano.
What is Vent?
400
The strong lower part of the mantle.
What is the Mesosphere?
400
Forms when pressure, temperature, or chemical process changes existing rock.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
500
The building blocks of matter
What is Atoms?
500
The return of rock to its original shape after elastic deformation?
What is Elastic rebound?
500
A location where a column of extremely hot mantle rock called mantle plume rises through the asthenosphere.
What is Hot Spot?
500
Extends from below the mantle to the center of Earth.
What is the Core?
500
The series of process in which rock changes from one type to another.
What is the Rock Cycle?
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