Plate Boundaries
Earth's Layers
Earth's Formation & Structure
Minerals
More Plate Tectonics
100
Name the 3 types of plate boundaries
What is Convergent, Divergent, and Transform?
100
The name of the outermost layer (#5) of the Earth
What is the lithosphere?
100
When the Big Bang is thought to have happened
What is 14.1 Billion Years ago?
100
Describe the general structure of an atom
What are equal number of protons and neutrons are in the nucleus and electrons orbit the nucleus?
100
The pattern of sediments on the sea floor
What is thinner and younger near MOR and thicker and older as you move away from MOR?
200
Type of boundary pictured here:
What is a convergent boundary?
200
Characteristics of the Inner Core
What are solid and rich in Fe & Ni?
200
The age of the Earth
What is 4.54 Billion Years?
200
Type of bond that occurs when atoms share their outermost electrons?
What is a Covalent bond?
200
The 4 pieces of evidence that Wegner used for his hypothesis of Continental Drift
What is the fit of the continents, fossil correlation, rock and mountain correlation, and paleoclimate evidence?
300
Type of boundaries that are commonly associated with earthquakes but not volcanoes
What are transform and divergent boundaries
300
Layer of the Earth that is responsible for the magnetic field
What is the liquid Outer Core?
300
Theory that explains the creation of our solar system
What is the Solar Nebula Theory?
300
Name the 5 parts to the geologic definition of a mineral
What are naturally occurring, crystalline solid, inorganic, characteristic physical properties, and narrowly defined chemical composition?
300
Name the key differences between Oceanic and Continental crust
What are Oceanic crust is thinner, denser, richer in Fe and Mg, and contains magnetic minerals?
400
Type of plate boundary that will create a volcanic island arc, subduction zone, and a trench
What is an Oceanic-Oceanic convergent boundary?
400
Layer of the Earth that behaves like plastic and is called the "zone of melting"
What is the Asthenosphere?
400
The heat that created the Earth's layers came from
What are gravitational compression, meteorite strikes, and radioactive decay in the core?
400
List the 8 most abundant elements in the Earth's crust
What are O, Si, Al, Fe, Ca, Na, K, Mg?
400
Method of heat transfer that drives plate tectonics
What is convection?
500
Importance of transform plate boundaries in the ocean
What is...they connect segments of mid ocean ridge which allows for the spherical nature of the earth and different plate velocities?
500
Layer of the Earth (by composition) that is rich in Si, O, Al
What is the Crust?
500
Two key pieces of evidence used to support the Big Bang Theory
What are continued expansion of the universe and background radiation?
500
Name the 5 common ways minerals are created on Earth
What is solidification from a melt, precipitation from solution, solid state alteration, biomineralization, chemical alteration?
500
Type of continental margin located along an active plate boundary
What is an active margin?
1000
Features you would find at a Continental-Continental convergent boundary
What are large mountain ranges and earthquakes?
1000
List the Earth's layers based on physical properties from the outermost layer to the innermost layer
What is Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer Core, Inner Core?
1000
Name the characteristics of the terrestrial planets
What are small, rocky, and have a high melting temperature?
1000
Name the characteristics of the silica group of minerals
What is the most common rock forming minerals, contain Si-O tetrahedron, can be subdivided into ferromagnesium silicates and nonferromagnesium silicates?
1000
The pattern of magnetic minerals in the rocks of the ocean's crust
What is they alternate from North to South in symmetrical bands on either side of the MOR?