Rocks & Minerals
Continental Drift
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rock Stuff
100
It is naturally occurring.
What is a Mineral?
100
Alfred Wegener
Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?
100
A seismograph this wave first.
What is a P-Wave?
100
Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in these locations.
Plate Boundaries
100
The process when rocks break into smaller pieces due to exposure to natural elements.
What is Weathering?
200
Name of rock identification strategy that examines how light reflects off of it.
What does a mineral's luster describe?
200
The area where two tectonic plates meet.
What is a Plate Boundary?
200
An instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes, such as force and duration.
What is a siesmograph?
200
Molten rock that has formed deep within the Earth.
What is Magma?
200
What is LAVA?
300
Made of minerals.
What are ROCKS?
300
Two tectonic plates collide at a _______ plate boundary.
What is CONVERGENT?
300
In order to pinpoint an earthquake's epicenter, scientists need data from at least _______ seismographic stations
What is THREE?
300
Where the oceanic plate slides under the continental plate.
What is a Subduction Zone?
300
These rocks often provide evidence of life.
What are sedimentary rocks?
400
Name of this type of rock and how you know. 
What is Igneous?
400
The land mass where all of the continents were once together in one large continent is called ________________.
What is Pangea?
400
Structures built on areas of wet soil are vulnerable to sinking or collapse during an earthquake. This is because the wet soils undergo _________________________ due to the shaking and vibration of an earthquake.
What is liquefaction?
400
One major belt of volcanoes that surrounds the Pacific Ocean
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
This type of rock and how you know. 
What is Igneous? Glassy Texture.
500
This type of rock and how you know.
What is Sedimentary? Compacted/Cemented Layers
500
The land mass where all of the continents were once together in one large continent is called ________________.
What is Pangea?
500
The Richter scale is used to measure an earthquake's _____________________, or the amount of energy released by the earthquake.
What is MAGNITUDE?
500
Recent volcanic eruption in the Ring of Fire studied in class.
What is the Tonga eruption?
500
Type of rock and how you know. 
What is Sedimentary? Evidence of Life.
600
Name of this crazy creature.
What is a Trilobite?
600
Three pieces of evidence that supports Alfred Wegner's hypothesis is...?
What is fossils of the same species are found on different continents.
600
Rocks on either side of this type of fault move past each other without much upward or downward movement.
What is TRANSFORM?
600
Seventy-five percent of Earth’s volcanoes—more than 450 volcanoes—are located here.
What is the Ring of Fire?
600
Five ways scientists identify rocks.
What are Luster, Color, Hardness, Streak, Chemical Reactions, Magnetism, Other?
700
Type of new rock and how you know. 
What is Metamorphic rock? Banded Crystals.
700
Crust is destroyed at this type of plate boundary.
What is convergent?
700
Major fault from Northern CA to Baja Mexico.
What is the San Andreas?
700
Molten material that reaches the surface.
What is Lava?
700
Common MN Rock
What is an Agate?
800
Intrusive igneous rock common to MN
What is Granite?
800
A plate boundary where the plates divide.
What is Divergent?
800
These waves cause particles of rock material to move at right angles to the direction in which the waves are traveling.
What are S-Waves?
800
Scientists that study volcanoes.
What are volcanologists?
800
Schist and quartzite are examples of metamorphic rocks. These processes are necessary for the formation of metamorphic rocks.
What are Heat and Pressure?