Topic 1: Minerals
Topic 2: Rocks & The Rock Cycle
Topic 3: Erosion and Weathering
Topic 4: The Moving Crust Topic 5: Earquakes
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Mountains and Fossils
100
A mineral that breaks along smooth, flat surfaces or planes
What is Cleavage
100
The 3 major rock families
What is Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic
100
The 4 major agents of erosion
What is glaciers, gravity, wind and water
100
Name of the super continent
What is Pangaea
100
Jagged and Tall mountains
What is young mountains
200
A scale that rates minerals hardness from 1 to 10
What is Mohs Hardness Scale
200
The basis for how the 3 rock families are classified
What is how they are formed
200
Scratches in rocks left behind by glaciers
What is striations
200
Where an earthquake begins within the earth
What is focus
200
Volcanic region that surrounds the pacific ocean
What is ring of fire
300
The mineral with the greatest hardness value on Mohs Hardness Scale.
What is Diamond
300
The material that forms metamorphic rock
What is parent rock
300
The type of weathering that explains a tree root spliting a rock
What is biological weathering
300
Plates move apart at these boundaries
What is divergent boundaries
300
The top part of a folded rock
What is anticline
400
There are six major systems that help to identify mineral shape.
What is Crystals
400
the 2 processes that form sedimentary rocks
What is Compaction and Cementation
400
Occurs when water, naturally formed acids, air and other substances react with the minerals in rocks
What is chemical weathering
400
Zone where one tectonic plate is forced under another (Also helps form volcanoes)
What is subduction zone
400
eroded sediments that pile up/ get pushed aside by glaciers
What is moraines
500
Pure, naturally occurring, crystalline materials that make up rocks.
What is Minerals
500
Magma that cools and hardens below the surface forms these types of rocks
What is intrusive igneous rocks
500
type of weathering the physically breaks apart rocks without breaking their chemical composition
What is mechanical weathering
500
Type of seismic wave that can travel through all states of matter and reach the seismograph first
What is P waves
500
type of fossil that includes tracks, burrows and any evidence of previous animal activity
What is trace fossils
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