rocks
minerals
tectonic plates
rivers
natural disasters
100
what are the three rock categories?
What is sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous
100
when you scratch a mineral with different houshold objects,, you are performing what test?
What is the scratch test
100
the two types of tectonic plates
What is oceanic and continental
100
a channel with perminant waterflow
What is a stream
100
the energy released by an earthquake
What is magnitude
200
the ability for water to flow through a rock
What is permeablity
200
a mineral that is useful and can be used for profit
What is an ore
200
what occurs at a o/c convergent boundary?
What is subduction
200
the bend or curve of river
What is meander
200
three types of volcanoes
What are composite sheild and cindercone
300
the amount of air in a rock
What is porosity
300
what minerals make up the earths crust
what are basalt and granite
300
what boundary is the mid ocean ridge located on?
What is divergent
300
The broad flat area that extends out from a streams bankend is covered by excess water during times of flood
What is a floodplain
300
the scale that measure magbnitude?
What is the richter scale
400
Cementation forms what rock
What is sedimentary
400
the resistance to being scratched
What is hardness
400
how many plates form the outer shell of the earth?
what is 5
400
where river runs into large body of water {lake or ocean} and deposits its sediments
What is deltas
400
the area prone to natural disasters
What is the ring of fire
500
Name two places where igneous rocks form
What is rifts/ ridges and volcanoes
500
the mineral used to make sheetrock
What is gypsum
500
What are the four driving forces behind plate motion?
What is convection, gravitational sliding, slab pull, ridge push
500
Mountain stream sediment is deposited when stream enters a river similar to a Delta
What is alluvial fan
500
the difference between a typhoon and monsoon
What is the hemisphere its on
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