intro/features/location
Plate tectonics
volcanos
Earthquakes
Minerals
100
these are the four layers of the earth
What is crust mantle inter core outer core
100
what is contiental crust
thick, light crust found on land
100
what is lava
What is magma that erupts onto earth surface
100
what is a fault zone
What is regions where plates under stress move apart
100
what is a silicate material
What is minerals that hold silicon and oxygen
200
what is geology
study of the solid earth
200
what is a chain of volcano islands that forms at a subduction zone
What is island arc
200
what is the tallest and most explosive volcano called
What is a composite volcano
200
what is a tsunami
What is a wave created on the ocean by a earthquake
200
what is inorganic
What is non living
300
what is a perdiction based on observation and logic
What is hypothesis
300
a mountain chained formed due to seafloor spreading
What is mid-ocean ridge
300
what is mafic lava
What is dark colored lava
300
what is intensity
What is the ammount of damage caused by an eartquake
300
how high does the mohs hardness scale go to
What is 1-10
400
what is oceanography
What is the study of earths oceans
400
what is pangea
What is the proposed supercontinent 200 million years ago
400
what is a vent
What is the opening to the volcano
400
what are primary waves
What is first waves that arrive from an earthquake
400
what is cleavage
What is when a mineral breakes along smooth,flat surfacees
500
a theory is
a conclusion to a scientific question which can't be proven
500
what is oceanic crust
What is thin, dense crust found on the ocean floor
500
what is the widest volcano with the shortest eruption
What is shield volcano
500
what are secoundary waves
What is the secound wave that arrives from an earthquake
500
what is a non-silicate mineral
What is minerals that d not contain silicon or oxygen
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