Earth's Interior and Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Minerals and Rocks
Weathering and Erosion
100
These are the three layers of Earth's interior listed from outermost to innermost.
What is crust, mantle, core?
100
This is the area along a fault where the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
What is the focus?
100
This is an opening at the surface of Earth through which volcanic material passes.
What is a vent?
100
These are natural, inorganic solids that make rocks.
What are minerals?
100
Ice or plants breaking rock are examples of this type of weathering.
What is physical weathering?
200
As you move closer to the inside of the Earth, this happens to the temperature.
What is it increases?
200
These are seismic waves that can only move through solids.
What are surface waves?
200
These volcanoes are gently sloping mountains.
What is a shield volcano?
200
This rock is formed by molten rock cooling.
What is igneous rock?
200
Carbon dioxide, water, or acid can all cause this type of weathering.
What is chemical weathering?
300
This is the theory which explains the movement of plates.
What is plate tectonics?
300
This is the study of earthquakes including their origin, propagation, energy, and prediction.
What is seismology?
300
These volcanoes are made of alternating layers of ash, cinders, and lava.
What is a composite volcano?
300
This is the process by which wind, rain, and temperature change, disintegrate, and decompose rocks.
What is weathering?
300
This is the process of Earth's surface being loosened, dissolved, or worn away and then moved to another place.
What is erosion?
400
These are the two types of boundaries found between plates.
What is divergent and convergent boundaries?
400
This scale is used to express the intensity of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
400
These volcanoes are the most common.
What are cinder cones?
400
This type of rock is formed from other rocks due to heat, pressure, or chemical processes.
What is metamorphic rock?
400
True or false: Wind can cause erosion.
What is true?
500
This is the process of one plate moving beneath another plate due to tectonic forces.
What is subduction?
500
This is the highest possible magnitude on the Richter scale of an earthquake.
What is 10?
500
Volcanoes occur at these types of plate boundaries.
What is convergent boundaries?
500
This principle is used to determine the relative age of a rock.
What is the superposition principle?
500
This are the three main ways erosion can occur.
What is water, glaciers, or wind?
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