Earth
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Rocks
Minerals
100
Core, Mantle, and crust
What are the the 3 layers of Earth?
100
Igneous rock
What kind of rock is formed by magma.
100
a break in earth's crust
What is a fault
100
Igneous,Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
What are the 3 types of rocks?
100
The 2 most common minerals.
What are quartz and feldspar?
200
Convection currents in the mantle.
What causes Earth's plates to move?
200
granite and obsidian
What are 2 types of igneous rock?
200
the point on earth surface above the earthquake happened.
What is an epicenter.
200
Fossils are found in sedimentary rock.
Where are fossils found?
200
Solids, Natural Inorganic.
What is a mineral?
300
The Sea Floor spreading is right by the Mid Ocean Ridge were two plates are moving away from one another.(Divergent Boundary)
What is the sea floor spreading.
300
Gas=high Viscosity=middle
What is a cinder cone volcano's settings ?
300
richter scale
What is the scale that measures eq size.
300
it is pumice
What is the floating rock?
300
a waxy soft mineral
What is talc?
400
Alfred Wegener.
Who made the theory that plates move?
400
plate tectonics-convergent boundaries - divergent boundaries
how do volcano's form?
400
waves that arrive at the recording station first during an earthquake
What is P waves
400
The rock cycle is where igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks go through weathering, cooling, heat pressure, melting.
What is the rock cycle?
400
minerals are valuable to humans because
What is because they are found in so many products humans use.
500
Transform boundary,convergent boundary, and divergent boundary.
What are the three types of boundaries?
500
area of volcanic activity around the pacific plate
What is the ring of fire
500
these two plates are grinding past each other causing the west coast of the US to be an earthquake zone.
What are the Pacific and North American
500
Basalt & Granite
What are the two most common rocks in the crust?
500
Mohs
What is the scale for measuring the hardness of a mineral?
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