Plate Tectonics
Minerals
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Misc.
100
The plate boundary in which two plates are moving away from each other.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
100
The type of bond present in halite.
What are ionic bonds?
100
What type of magma is really think?
What is silicic magma?
100
The sedimentary texture of intergrown mineral crystals commonly precipitated from water.
What is sedimentary crystalline texture?
100
The largest water reservoir on Earth.
What is the ocean?
200
The type of continental margin on the east coast.
What is a passive continental margin?
200
The criteria of the ions for ionic substitution.
What is (1) ionic radii of the substituting ions and (2) electrical charge of the ion?
200
Are phaneritic and pegmatitic rocks intrusive or extrusive volcanic rocks?
Intrusive
200
The two types of weathering.
What are mechanical and chemical weathering?
200
The two most common elements in the crust.
What is oxygen and silicon?
300
The gravitational pull of a dense oceanic lithospheric plate into the asthenosphere at the subduction zone.
What is trench pull?
300
The definition of a mineral.
What is a naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solid with a definite chemical composition?
300
Name two mafic flow structures.
Lava levees, lava tubes, pahoehoe lava, aa lava, columnar joints, and submarine pillow lava.
300
The textural maturity of angular and poorly-sorted material.
What is texturally immature?
300
The highest quality of coal.
What is anthracite coal?
400
The two plate boundaries that result in partial melting and volcanism.
What is the divergent and convergent plate boundaries?
400
The type of arrangement of silica tetrahedrals in mica.
What are continuous sheets?
400
A volcanic intrusive structure that lays horizontal to the bedding field.
What is a dike?
400
The type of lithification process common to clay, silt, and carbonaceous material.
What is compaction?
400
A type of metallic mineral deposit that formed in the ocean 3.5-2.0 Ga when oxygen first was available in our atmosphere.
What is Banded Iron Formation?
500
The type of rock that rises from the asthenosphere in hot spots.
What is peridotite?
500
The name of the scale on which minerals are rated for hardness.
What is Moh's Hardness Scale.
500
Name the discontinuous branch of Bowen's Reaction Series, starting from mafic magma.
Olivine---pyroxene---amphibole---biotite---orthoclase---muscovite---quartz.
500
A type of primary physical structure typically caused by a turbidity current.
What is graded bedding?
500
The organism that is responsible for forming stromatolites.
What is cyanobacteria (also just bacteria)?
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