Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanos
Minerals
Rocks
100
Radiation, conduction and convection.
What are the three types of heat transfer?
100
Any change in the volume or shape of earths crust.
What is Deformation?
100
Magma.
What is another word for lava?
100
A mineral that is very magnetic.
What is magnetite?
100
The look and feel of a rocks surface.
What is texture?
200
Convection.
What is heat transfer through the movement of a heated fluid?
200
P-Waves, S-Waves, and surface waves.
What is What are the three types of waves?
200
It means it is not a magma flowing volcano.
What does it mean to have an inactive volcano?
200
Strip mines, open pit mines, and shaft mines.
What are the three types of mines.
200
Heat and pressure deep beneath earth's surface can change any rock into....
How does metemorphic rock?
300
Temperature rises and pressure increases.
What two things change when you go deeper in the earth?
300
Stress that pushes a mass of rock into opposite directions.
What is Shearing?
300
Diverging plate boundaries, such as the mid- ocean ridge, or in subduction zones around the edges of oceans.
Where do most volcano's occur?
300
The definition of solution.
What is a mixture in which one substance dissolves in another?
300
A rock that forms when rock fragments are squeezed together.
What is a classic rock?
400
When an oceanic crust goes under the continental crust then back into the earth again.
What is subduction?
400
The process that occures when earthquakes violent shaking turns loose soft soil into liquid mud.
What is Liquefacation?
400
An opening where magma comes out.
What is a Crater?
400
A naturally occuring inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and a definate chemical composition
what is a mineral?
400
A rock that forms when minerals that are dissolved in a solution crystalize.
What is a chemical rock?
500
All the continents were joined together in a landmass called Pangea.
What is Wegeners theory about the continental drift?
500
An instrument that measures the tilting of the ground.
What is a tiltmeter?
500
An area where the magma melts through the mantle going through like a blow tourch.
What is the "Hot Spot" in the mantle?
500
A substance of a single kind of atom.
What is an element?
500
Marble and Slate.
What are the two most used metamorphic rocks?
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