What is the type of rock that is formed by applying heat and pressure to other rock forms?
Metamorphic
100
What is the type of plate boundary where two plates move away from each other?
Divergent
100
This is what a star originally begins as before it is born.
What is a "stellar nebula"
100
Earthquakes and volcanoes tend to occur at these locations.
What are "plate boundaries"
100
Which of these divisions of time is longest?
Era, Period, Age, or Epoch
An "Era" is longest
200
Which dating method is used in order to find the exact age of a rock?
Absolute or Radiometric Dating
200
What types of formations are found at continental-continental convergent plate boundaries?
Mountain Chains
200
This is the stage of the star life cycle that our Sun is currently in.
Main Sequence Star
200
Volcanoes form at this place where one plate is sinking below another.
What is a "subduction zone" or What is a "convergent boundary"
200
A fault line is younger or older than the rock it cuts through?
The fault line is younger
300
In what type of rock are fossils found?
Sedimentary
300
What is the name of the person who developed the theory of continental drift?
Alfred Wegener
300
This stage of the Sun's life cycle will eventually lead to both Mercury and Venus being enveloped by the Sun.
What is a "Red Giant."
300
Tsunamis are caused by this occurrence.
What is an "earthquake under the ocean".
300
Different periods of time in earth's history are separated by this type of event.
What is mass extinction
400
What is the term that describes when water, wind, ice, etc. moves rock and soil fragments?
Erosion
400
What is the process responsible for plate movement?
Convection
400
This celestial body is most responsible for the tides on Earth.
What is "the moon."
400
The area around the Pacific Ocean where a majority of earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
What is "the Ring of Fire"
400
The Earth is this many years old.
What is 4.6 billion years.
500
What is the law that describes how older rock layers are found below younger rock layers?
Law of Superposition
500
What is the name of the process that scientists use in order to determine the location of an earthquake's epicenter using P and S wave information?
Triangulation
500
Radio waves, x-rays, and gamma rays are examples of waves of light on this sequence.
What is the "Electromagnetic Spectrum"
500
List 4 things that can form or happen at plate boundaries.
Any 4 of the following:
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Fault Line, Seafloor Spreading,
Volcanic Islands, Mountains, Tsunamis (from earthquakes),
Subduction Zone
500
Alfred Wegener used 5 types of evidence to support his theory of Continental Drift. List as many of them as you can.
Puzzle like fit of continents
Cold climate evidence in warm places
Warm climate evidence in cold places
Fossil Evidence
Geologic evidence in rock formations