Intro to earth science
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rocks and Minerals
100
The first lab we did in class
What is coin lab
100
the continents splitting apart from Pangea the super continent
What is Continental Drift
100
The straitening of plates that snap under stress
What is Elastic Rebound Theory
100
Three Types of volcanoes
What are Shield, Cinder cone, and Composite
100
From lava to Igneous Rock to Sediment to Sedimentary rock to Metamorphic rock back to lava
What is Rock cycle
200
The heaviest coin
What is the quarter
200
the magma rising out of the crust then hardens under water then subduction pulls it apart
What is Sea floor Spreading
200
The exact point and above the exact point where the earthquake happens
What is Focus and Epicenter
200
Thick slow moving lava has a lot of
What is Silica
200
The Shiny glassy igneous rock
What is obsidian
300
The four main things we are studying in this class
What are Geography, Oceanography, Meteorology, and Astronomy
300
Type of Plate Boundaries-They slide back and forth on one another
What is Transform
300
P waves S waves
What are Seismic Waves
300
Explosive lava has a lot of
What are Silica and Gas
300
The banded metamorphic rock
What are Gniess and Quartzite
400
The process that you go through when you want to find a conclution
What is Scientific method
400
Type of Plate Boundaries-The one that is pushing together
What is Convergent
400
Things that measure earthquakes.
What is Seismograph
400
The volcano with very runny lava
What is Cinder cone
400
Sediment Cemented and compacted
What is Sedimentary Rock
500
The year the US stopped making copper pennies
What is 1838
500
Type of Plate Boundaries-They are pulling apart from one another
What is Divergent
500
He invented The magnitude scale
Who is Richter Magnitude
500
Deadliest eruption ever
What is Mt. St. Helens
500
The three things that can happen to the rocks that can send them back through the rock cycle
What are sedimentary rock can become sediment igneous rocks can become magma metamorphic rock can become sediment
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