Rocks and Minerals
Geological Time
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
Rocks that form from the cooling of magma or lava
What is an igneous rock
100
The preserved remains of traces of living thigns
What is a fossil
100
a layer of hot, solid rock
What is the mantle
100
fold in rock that bends upward into an arch
What is an anticline
100
magma
What is molten material inside the Earth
200
Igneous rocks that formed beneath the Earth's surface
What are intrusive rocks
200
Lava that hardens on the surface
What is an extrusion
200
breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other
What is a fault
200
the area beneath Earth's surface where rock that is under stress breaks
What is the focus
200
the two things magma's viscosity depends on
What is silica content and temperature
300
Rocks that form when existing rock is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions
What are metamorphic rocks
300
The age of a rock compared to the age of other rocks
What is relative age
300
the transfer of heat through space
What is radiation
300
distance between crests of a wave
What is wavelength
300
Pahoehoe
What is fast moving, hot lava that has a low viscosity?
400
The color of a mineral's powder
What is streak
400
The surface where new rocks meet a much older rock surface beneath them
What is an unconformity
400
The process by which ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle
What is subduction
400
block of rock that lies above the fault line
What is the hanging wall
400
the resistance of liquid to flowing
What is viscosity
500
The five characteristics of all minerals
What is naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, crystal structure, definite chemical composition
500
The 4 things fossil records show evidence of
What is Earth's past environments, past climates, changes in Earth's surface, and changes in organisms
500
The driving force of plate tectonics
What is convection currents
500
The seismic wave that only travels through solids
What is s-waves
500
plates collide, the older denser plate sinks and melts, less dense magma rises through the crust
What is a convergent boundary
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