Intro/ Features/ Location
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Minerals
100
This is imaginary lines that run horizontally across the Earth to distinguish location.
What is Latitude
100
This is the proposed supercontinent 200 million years ago.
What is pangea?
100
This is the point on the surface directly above the focus
What is Epicenter
100
This is molten rock found under the surface of the earth.
What is magma
100
This is the color of a mineral in powdered form.
What is streak?
200
This is ways to take a 3D object and make it 2D.
What is Map Projections?
200
This is a mountain chain formed due to sea floor spreading.
What is mid-ocean ridge?
200
These are small earthquakes caused from the readjustment of plates after a major earthquake.
What is aftershock?
200
This is the opening which magma erupts onto the surface.
What is vent?
200
When a mineral breaks along smoothe flat surfaces
What is cleavage
300
This is the two points on the earth where the earth's magnetic fields meet
What is Geomagnetic Poles?
300
This is this the crust and the uppermost mantle.
What is lithosphere?
300
This is a region surrounding the pacific ocean where the majority of earthquakes occur.
What is ring of fire
300
Large wide short volcanoes that produce runny mafic lava.
What is a shield volcano
300
The reflectivity of a mineral.
What is luster?
400
This is two dates of the year where the sun hits exactly on the equator.
What is Equinox
400
This is a region where one plate moves under another.
What is subduction zone?
400
This is the first wave to arrive to the surface.
What is primary waves?
400
BB or marble size particles of rock.
What is lapilli?
400
Minerals containing silicon and oxygen
What is silicate minerals
500
This is the date which the earth is farthest from the sun.
What is Aphelion?
500
This is the movement of heat through the asthenosphere which causes plates above to move
What is convection current
500
This is the straighting of plates after plates under stress snap.
What is elastic rebound theory?
500
A feature produced when an emptied magma chamber causes a volcano to colapse.
What is caldera
500
this is a scale that goes from 1-10, 1 softess, 10 hardest
What is Mohs Hardness Scale
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