Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Weathering and Erosion
Resources
Cells and living things
Animal classification
100

The place where Earth's plates meet

What is plate boundaries?

100

The type of weathering that breaks rocks into smaller and smaller pieces

What is mechanical weathering?

100

A resource that cannot be easily replaced

What is a nonrenewable resource?

100

An instrument that uses lenses to magnify objects hundreds or thousands of times

What is a microscope?

100

Animals with backbones

What are vertebrates?

200
This is the term for volcanic fog

What is vog?

200

The movement of weathered material from one location to the next

What is erosion?

200

The most abundant metal in the earth's crust

What is aluminum?

200

The person who first discovered cells

Who is Robert Hooke?

200

The group of vertebrates that are warm-blooded and have feathers

What are birds?

300

The point on the surface of the earth directly above the focus of an earthquake

What is the epicenter?

300

The primary force in erosion

What is gravity?

300

A factory that separates crude oil into different products

What is a refinery?

300

The process plants use to converts sunlight into sugar

What is photosynthesis?

300

The group that includes sharks and stingrays

What are cartilage fish?

400

An avalanche of red-hot dust and gases produced by volcanoes

What is pyroclastic flow?

400

The type of mass movement that occurs when slabs of rock break off along cracks and faults

What is a rockslide?

400

The term that refers to all of Earth's water

What is hydrosphere?

400

the organelle that makes proteins for the cell

What are ribosomes?

400

The phylum that includes oysters, snails, and nudibranchs

What are mollusks?

500

The most powerful volcanic eruption

What is Plinian eruption?

500

The type of weathering when rocks rub against each other causing the rocks to have smooth, round edges

what is abrasion?

500

The energy produced as water flows from reservoirs and turns turbines

What is hydroelectric energy?

500

The kingdom that algae belong to

What is Protista?

500

The class of arthropods that have 3 body segments and 3 pairs of legs

What are insects?
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