Plate Tectonics
Minerals
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
100
The least dense layer of the Earth
What is the continental crust?
100
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What is halite?
100
The most common rock of the ocean crust
What is basalt
100
the most common sedimentary rock
What is shale?
100
the result of adding heat to limestone
What is marble
200
This happens when a continental plate meets an oceanic plate.
What is subduction?
200
A mineral composed of isolated silicon tetrahedrons
What is olivine?
200
a volcano that forms from a short steep mound of vesicular basalt or scoria
What is a cinder cone?
200
A rock that is likely to form from unrounded pieces of rock cemented together.
What is breccia
200
a rock with parallel oriented minerals that are visible and flaky
What is schist?
300
The substance that decreases the melting point of rock
What is water?
300
A mineral that is an ore of copper
What is azurite?
300
A Cascade volcano that erupted in 1980
What is Mount St. Helens?
300
The deposit of sediment at the end of a river
What is a delta
300
a metamorphic rock with alternating layers of light and dark minerals
What is gneiss?
400
An example of a linear sea
What is the Red Sea?
400
A mineral used to make plaster
What is gypsum
400
A kind of lava flow with a smooth undulating surface
What is pahoehoe?
400
The mineral that forms shale
What is clay (or kaolinite)
400
The main mineral in slate
What is mica (or chlorite)
500
The place where rock will melt by decompression melting
What is a divergent boundary
500
The name of a flat surface of a crystal
What is crystal facies.
500
A pyroclastic rock composed of ash
What is volcanic tuff
500
a group of rocks that can be found in desert lakes
What are evaporites?
500
smooth striations of new minerals formed along a fault
What is slickensides
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