The scale that measures the magnitude of an earthquake is called...
What is Richter Scale.
100
The hardest mineral is...
What is diamond
100
The three types of rocks are...
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
200
Revolution causes...
What is the four seasons.
200
The inner core's characteristic is...
What is it is as hot as the sun.
200
A level 2 earthquake is how many times stronger than a level 1 earthquake...?
What is 10 times stronger.
200
The scale that identifies a minerals hardness is called...
What is the Mohs Hardness Scale.
200
Rocks are made from...
What is two or more minerals.
300
The length of rotation and revolution is... (be exact)
What is rotation is 24 hours and revolution is 365.25 days.
300
The thickest layer is...
What is mantle.
300
The three things a volcano can spew out during an eruption are...
What is dust, ash, and rock
300
When testing the mineral's ____________, you rub the mineral along an unglazed tile.
What is streak.
300
The kind of rock that comes from sediments...
What is Sedimentary Rocks.
400
Leap year occurs once every four years because...
What is the earth takes 365.25 days to orbit the sun so when you have the extra 1/4 day every year we get an extra whole day added to our calendar on the fourth year.
400
The only liquid layer is...
What is outer core.
400
The three main types of volcanoes are...
What is shield, cinder, and composite volcanoes.
400
These two properties deal with how a mineral breaks...
What is fracture and cleavage.
400
The kind of rock(s) that become metamorphic rocks are...
What is igneous, sedimentary, AND other metamorphic rocks.
500
The series of orbit between the earth, moon, and sun is...
What is earth rotate around the sun and the moon rotates around earth.
500
Two things the crust is known for are...
What is the thinnest layer and the only layer that contains life.
500
Volcanoes occur along what plate boundary?
What is divergent.
500
The mineral that is referred to "fools gold"...
What is Pyrite.
500
The difference between intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks is...
What is intrusive is the cooling of magma below the earth surface and extrusive is the cooling of lava at or above the earth's surface.