Rocks
Earth
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Mountains
Hodge-Podge
100
The traces of plants and animals that have been preserved in rock.
What are fossils
100
The part of the Earth that has the most mass.
What is the mantle?
100
Where volcanoes are most likely to form.
What is along plate boundaries?
100
The eruption of Mount Pinatubo caused average global temperatures to drop. What effect could this have worldwide?
What are wetter, milder summers and longer harsher winters.
100
The ancient continent that contained all the landmasses.
What is Pangaea?
200
A series of processes on Earth's surface that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.
What is the rock cycle?
200
The solid dense center of our planet.
What is the inner core?
200
This is used to measure the strength of an earthquake.
What is the richter scale?
200
The only type of mountain that is formed by adding new material to the the Earth's surface.
What are volcanic mountains?
200
The layer of the Earth that is made up to tectonic plates.
What is the lithosphere?
300
The type of rock that forms when grains of sediment undergo compaction and cementation.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
The strong, lower part of the mantle that lies beneath the asthenosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
300
The most destructive seismic wave..
What is a surface wave?
300
The type of mountain that led early explorers to call the rim of the Pacific Ocean, the Ring of Fire.
What is a volcanic mountain?
300
The motion that occurs where two tectonic plates slip past each other.
What is transform motion?
400
The type of rock that forms under high temperature and pressure, but does not melt.
What is metamorphic?
400
Causes movement of Earth's tectonic plates.
What are convection currents?
400
A type of volcano with gently sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
400
The minimum height to be considered a mountain.
What is 600 meters?
400
Rocks are made of this.
What are minerals?
500
When rock undergoes metamorphism, what three things will change?
What is structure, texture, and composition.
500
The part of the crust that is thinnner and more dense.
What is the Earth's oceanic crust?
500
Left in the atmosphere, this will increase solar reflection and lower Earth's temperatures.
What is volcanic dust?
500
Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain on Earth, is an example of this type of volcano.
What is a shield volcano?
500
This was not used as evidence to support the theory of continental drift.
What is the existence of convection currents?
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