Vocabulary 1
Earthquakes
Vocabulary 2
Volcanoes
Rock Cycle
100
Look and feel of a rock's surface
What is Texture
100
Type of wave that causes the most damage
What is Surface Wave
100
Shaking and trembling that results from movement of rock beneath Earth's surface
What is Earthquake
100
Spread of lava as it pours out the vent
What is Lava Flow
100
Process that presses sediments together
What is compaction
200
Breaking apart in an irregular way
What is Fracture
200
Earliest magnitude scale which rates earthquakes based on the size of the earthquake's waves
What is Richter Scale
200
Molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from Earth's mantle
What is Magma
200
Bowl shaped area that may form at the top of a volcano
What is Crater
200
Process by which running water, wind, or ice carry away bits of broken-up rock
What is Erosion
300
This is used to rank the hardness of minerals
What is Mohs Hardness Scale
300
Instrument that records and measures an earthquake's waves
What is Seismogram
300
Rock that hardens beneath Earth's surface
What is intrusive rock
300
3 stages of volcanic activity
What are Extinct, Dormant, and Active
300
Rock formed by extreme heat or pressure
What is Metamorphic Rock
400
Formula for Density
What is Mass over volume
400
This scale rates the amount of shaking from an earthquake
What is Mercalli Scale
400
Particles of minerals or other rocks that most rocks are made up of
What are Grains
400
Two types of rock that form from quiet volcano lava
What are Aa and Pahoehoe
400
What is the source of igneous rock
What is magma
500
Narrow channel different from the surrounding rock
What is vein
500
How do geologists find an earthquake's epicenter
What are seismic waves
500
Number that geologists assign to an earthquake based on the earthquake's size
What is Magnitude
500
Material found in magma that determine how thin or runny magma is
What is Silica
500
Sediment piles up on the ocean floor through the process called
What is deposition
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