Minerals
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Miscellaneous
100
Solid, Crystal structure, Made in Nature, Nonliving Material
What are the four characteristics of minerals?
100
Orange peeling represented these in class.
What are tectonic plates?
100
Scale that measures magnitude of plate movement.
What is the Richter Scale?
100
The two factors that affect the explosivity of a volcano.
What are the viscosity and pressure levels.
100
Type of mine that goes way down deep in the ground.
What is shaft mine?
200
Color, Luster, Hardness, Density, Fracture, Phosphorescence
What are the characteristics used to identify minerals?
200
The plate boundary where most earthquakes happen.
What are transform or convergent boundaries?
200
Scale that measures damage done by an Earthquake.
What is the Mercalli Scale?
200
The smallest type of volcano.
What is a cinder cone.
300
All minerals are rocks, but not all rocks are minerals.
What is True
300
Pacific Plate
What is the plate that the ring of fire is around?
300
The fastest earthquake wave
What is a P-wave
300
The largest mountain in the world!
What is Mauna Kea
300
The volcano that has silver colored lava?
What is Longai?
400
A blue colored birthstone for September
What are Sapphires?
400
Name two in North and South America.
What are the North American plate and South American plate?
400
The wave that causes the most damage
What is a surface wave
400
Mauna Kea is this type of volcano
What is a shield volcano?
400
The weight at the top of a building that moves to help a building not fall down in an earthquake?
What is a mass damper?
500
3.4 billion pounds
What is the amount the average American uses of minerals in their lifetime?
500
The name of the plate boundary where the plates move away from one another.
What is Divergent plate!
500
The spot where an earthquake starts.
What is the epicenter or focus.
500
The name of the volcanologists we watched a movie on.
Who are the Kraffts?
500
The names of the three types of rocks.
What are Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary.
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