Intro/ Features/
Location
Plate tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Minerals
100
What is the study of solid Earth?
Geology
100
Whats a thin dense crust found on ocean floor?
Oceanic Crust
100
What is a device whih measures seismic waves?
Seismograph
100
What is molten rock found under the surface?
Magma
100
The color of the mineral powder is called
streak
200
What is the imaginary line which the Earth spins upon?
Axis
200
What is a thick light crust found on land?
Continental Crust
200
What is the amount of damaged caused by an eathquake called?
Intensity
200
What is the thinest of all pyroclasts?
Volcanic Dust
200
what is the reflectivity of the mineral called.(metallic and Non metallic)
Luster
300
Imaginary lines which run horizontally (East to West) across the earth to distinguish?
Parallels
300
what is a deep feature that forms a subduction zone?
Ocean Trench
300
What is a region surronding the Pacific Ocean where the majority of the earth`s earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
Ring of Fire
300
What is a structure that moves magma to the surface of the earth?
Volcano
300
what is the measure of the ability of the rock to be scratched called?
hardness
400
What is testing a scientific inquiry?
Experimentation
400
What is it when two plates slide past one another?
Transform Boundry
400
What are regions where plates understress move apart?
Fault Zones
400
What is the slightly thinner than volcanic dust?
Volcanic ash
400
non living is another word for................
Inorganic
500
What is the orbit of the earth around the Sun?
Revolution
500
What is a chain of volcanic islands that forms at a subduction?
Island Arc
500
What are small earthquakes caused by the reajustment of plates after a major eathquake?
Aftershocks
500
an opening in the volcano that magma erupts out of?
vent
500
The way the rock breaks is called?
cleavage
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