Earth
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Rocks
Minerals
100
Rocks!
What is Earth made of?
100
Plate tectonics at convergent and divergent boundaries
What causes volcanoes?
100
Plate tectonics causes a fault to move.
What causes earthquakes?
100
a mixture of minerals
What are rocks made of?
100
Quartz and feldspar
What are two common minerals?
200
the hottest layer of Earth
What is the core?
200
Strata, Shield and Cinder Cone
What are the three main types of volcanoes?
200
epicenter
What is the point on Earth's surface above the exact point of an earthquake (focus)?
200
wind, rain, ice, snow, rivers
What causes weathering?
200
Mohs
What is scale for measuring mineral hardness?
300
Candy shell=crust It is thin and cracks chocolate=mantle It is thick peanut=core It is dense and in the center
How is the structure of Earth like a peanut m and m?
300
ring of fire
What is the area of volcanoes and earthquakes around the Pacific ocean?
300
Richter scale
What scale is used to measure earthquake magnitude?
300
metamorphic
What kinds of rocks are gneiss, marble, slate?
300
makeup, toothpaste and cars
What are some uses of minerals?
400
Plate tectonics at convergent boundaries causes plates to crash into each other and form these.
What causes mountains?
400
Strata
What type of volcano is tallest?
400
Pacific and North American
What two plates are involved in the earthquake activity of the west coast of the US?
400
a landform caused by erosion of sediments that are then piled up upon each other.
What is sand dunes?
400
hardness, density, streak, luster, color, cleavage, fracture
What are properties of minerals?
500
convection currents in the mantle
What causes plates move?
500
a supervolcano in WY and MT
What is Yellowstone?
500
an earthquake
What is first, plates move. Then energy is released at a fault. Finally, the ground shakes?
500
the process of changing one type of rock into another
What is the rock cycle?
500
any inorganic, natural solid with a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
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