Rocks/Minerals
An igneous rock that cooled below the surface of the crust.
What is intrusive?
A super-continent said to exist over 200,000,000 years ago.
What is Pangaea?
A Pika's diet.
What are flowers, grasses and/or plants?
A natural, solid substance with a chemical formula and crystal structure
What is a mineral?
Where magma drains away underground, creating a long, hollow passage.
What is a lava tube?
How a mineral reflects light.
What is Luster?
The layer of the earth that is made up of liquid iron and nickel.
What is the outer core?
The last year the Cindercone erupted.
When in 1666?
A process in which earthen materials are worn away and transported by natural forces such as wind, water, or ice (or humans, animals, etc).
What is erosion?
Igneous rocks that are ejected from volcanic activity.
What are cinders?
The mineral limestone made from.
What is calcium carbonate?
The title of deepest part of our world's oceans.
What is the Mariana trench?
A place where super-heated water rises up into boiling springs, mud pots, and steam vents.
What is Bumpass Hell?
It’s the idea that, long ago, the whole Earth was covered in a giant ocean of magma (molten rock). Over time, the surface cooled and hardened into a crust of basalt and granite.
What is Hot Earth Theory? (or plutonism)
An enormous volcano that is built over time with alternating layers of lava flows, volcanic ash, and cinders.
What is a composite (or strata) volcano?
The mineral that often survives erosion and becomes tiny grains of sand.
What is quarts?
This occurs when a continental plate and an oceanic plate converge.
What is subduction?
The only thing that can live in the Lassen sulfur pots.
What is bacteria?
The main factor that determines if crystals will form in igneous rocks.
What is the length of time to cool?
The area surrounding the Pacific tectonic plate where many volcanoes and earthquakes occur.
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
To fall (usually in layers) on the ocean, lake, or river floors.
What is "deposit"?
This occurs/forms when two oceanic plates diverge.
What is an oceanic ridge? (Or what is new crust?)
The quality of the lava rock that makes the water from Burney Falls able to travel through it.
What is porous?
Slate, gneiss, marble, and quartzite.
What are metamorphic rocks?
A cindercone volcano in Mexico that erupted in 1943, demolishing two towns and terrifying the farmers in the fields.
What is Pericutin?