Rocks and Minerals
The shininess of a mineral
What is luster?
Deep holes in the ocean floor where subduction occurs
What is a trench?
Made the Statue of Liberty turn green
What is oxidation?
Two most abundant gases in the air
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
The front caused by warm air pushing out cold air
What is a warm front?
Rocks formed from heat and pressure on other rocks
What are metamorphic rocks?
Type of boundary where plates are pulling away from each other
What is a divergent boundary?
Weathering where water dissolves minerals from a rock
What is hydrolysis?
Part of the atmosphere where the ozone layer is
What is the stratophere?
These storms form over warm tropical oceans
What is a hurricane?
Rocks that cool from magma deep underground
What are intrusive rocks?
The fastest type of earthquake wave
What is a p-wave?
Rapid movement of a muddy soil mix downhill
What is a mudslide?
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
When you're in a car, you're safe from this
What is lightning?
The tendency to break and form a bumpy surface
What is fracture?
Cinder cone, strato, shield
What are types of volcanoes?
The flat area next to the banks of an old river
What is the floodplain?
Differences in air pressure between two places leads to this
What is wind?
We associate thunderstorms with this kind of front
What is a cold front?
A sedimentary rock made from the remains of sea shells (calcite)
What is limestone?
A specific place on Earth formed by two continents colliding
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An area that has lot of caves, sinkholes, and sinking streams
What is karst?
The instrument that measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
The type of front that forms near the end of a storms life
What is an occluded front?