Rocks and Minerals
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
Hodge Podge
The Biggest and the Best
100
The two things needed to form a metamorphic rock from an igneous or sedimentary rock.
What are heat and pressure?
100
The scale used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
100
True or false: The continents are moving right now.
What is true?
100
The percent of the earth that is currently covered in ice.
What is 10%?
100
The THICKEST layer of the earth.
What is the mantle?
200
The type of igneous rocks that cool very slowly inside the earth's crust, forming large crystals.
What is intrusive?
200
Earthquakes under the ocean trigger these huge (and very destructive) waves.
What are tsunamis?
200
Plates can move three ways. This type of movement is what causes volcanoes.
What is subduction?
200
Melted rock, below the earth’s surface.
What is magma?
200
The TALLEST mountain in the world.
What is Mount Everest?
300
Of the 6 different characteristics used to identify minerals, this one uses a scratch test and the Moh's scale.
What is hardness?
300
Of the 5 things that can erupt out of a volcano, this one is a blob of lava that solidifies in the air and hits the earth as a rock.
What is a bomb?
300
The name of the supercontinent that was formed during the flood.
What is Pangaea?
300
The mountain range between India and China where Mt. Everest is located.
What is the Himalayas?
300
The area around the Pacific Ocean where the LARGEST number earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
One of the five characteristics of minerals.
What is naturally occurring, not alive, chemical structure, crystal structure, or solid.
400
The machine used to measure the strength of seismic waves from an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
400
The location of the longest mountain system in the world?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
Of the 3 types of rocks, only this type contains fossils.
What is sedimentary?
400
The HARDEST mineral found in the earth.
What is diamond?
500
Of the two types of sedimentary rocks, this one is formed when fragments of other rocks are cemented together.
What is clastic?
500
The type of volcano that has not erupted in the last 50 years, but is expected to erupt in the future.
What is dormant?
500
The type of plate movement that causes earthquakes.
What is strike-slip faulting?
500
A sheet of ice that never completely melts.
What is a glacier?
500
In 1964, the GREATEST earthquake ever to hit North America occurred in this state.
What is Alaska?
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