Rocks
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Miscellaneous
100
A metamorphic rock with grains arranged randomly is....
What is non-foliated?
100
A movement of a fluid caused by differences in temperature that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another is called.....
What is convection currents?
100
A downward fold in rock formed by compression in Earth's crust is called....
What is a syncline?
100
Volcanoes are most likely to form here...
What is the Ring of Fire?
100
A large whole at the top of a volcano formed when the roof of a volcano's magma chamber collapses is called.....
What is a caldera?
200
The process by which sediment is laid down in new locations is called....
What is deposition?
200
What is sea floor spreading -AND- where does the _______________ slowly move?
What is the process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor? What is slowly closer to the continents?
200
A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface(lava) is called....
What is a volcano?
200
The explusion of ash, cinders, bombs, and gases during an explosive volcanic eruption is called.....
What is a pyroclastic flow?
200
Name the cause of a convection current.
What is heat?
300
A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together is.....
What is sedimentary rock?
300
In what layer is the anthenosphere located?
What is the mantle?
300
List the 3 types of stresses -AND- the kind of fault that they produce.
What is -tension:normal fault -compression:reverse fault -shearing:strike-slip fault
300
All mass movement has this in common.....
What is they are cause by gravity?
400
Define a foliated metamorphic rock.
What is a type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions. *foliated and non-foliated
400
What makes up the lithosphere?
What is the mantle and the crust?
400
Define surface waves.
What is the wave-like motion that is smaller than P (primary) waves and S (secondary) waves. This wave can travel through the crust.
400
Define a dormant
What is a volcano that is NOT currently active, but that may become active in the future.
400
Define index fossils.
What are fossils of widely distributed organisms that lived during only one short period?
500
Define rock cycle.
What is a series of processes on the surface and inside Earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.
500
What is a rift valley?
What is a deep valley that forms where two plates move apart?
500
S waves move is a ___________-____________ motion. They vibrate from _________ to ________ and ____ and ________. They can travel through the _________ and the ___________. It goes _______________ speed the P waves and is ____________ than surface waves.
What is wave-like,side,side,up,down,crust,mantle,the same,faster?
500
Name the parts of a volcano.
What is the magma chamber, the pipe, the vent, the lava flow, and the crater.
500
List the material found in the inner core.
What is solid metal, iron, and nickel?
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