Minerals
Weathering, Erosion, and soil
Earthquakes
Climate
Plate tectonics
100
Is a naturally, inorganic solid with a specific chemical composition and a definite crystalline structure.
What are minerals?
100
The process by which rocks on or near Earth's surface break down and change
What is weathering?
100
The forces per unit area acting on a material, exceeds the strength of the rocks involved.
What is stress?
100
The study of Earth's climate and the factors that affect past, present, and future climate changes.
What is Climatology?
100
Earth's continents had once been joined as a single landmass.
What is the Continental drift?
200
is a solid in which the atoms are arranged in repeating patterns
What is a crystal?
200
The removal and transport of weathered material from one location to another.
What is Erosion
200
The resulting fracture or system of fractures, along which movement occurs.
What is a fault?
200
a localized climate that differs from the main regional climate.
What is microclimate?
200
Ceated the continental drift hypothesis.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
300
Color, luster, texture, streak, Hardness, Cleavage and Fracture.
What are the identifications of a mineral?
300
The process by which rocks and minerals break down into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical weathering?
300
Where the earthquake originates.
What is a focus?
300
short-time periods of climatic change caused by regular variations in daylight, temperature, and weather patterns.
What are seasons?
300
A device that can detect small changes in magnetic fields.
What is a magnetometer?
400
Minerals that contain silicon and oxygen, and usually one or more other elements.
What are silicates
400
The process by which rocks and minerals undergo changes in their composition as the result of chemical reaction.
What is chemical weathering?
400
The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus.
What is an epicenter?
400
23.5 degree's.
What is the angle of Earth's tilt?
400
The study of magnetic records.
What is a paleomagnetism?
500
About 3,000 minerals
how many minerals is Earth's crust composed of?
500
The chemical reaction of oxygen with other substances.
What is oxidation?
500
Measures the amount of damage done.
What is a Mercalli scale
500
The natural heating of Earth's surface caused by certain atmospheric gases called greenhouse gases.
What is the greenhouse affect?
500
One of the two plates is descending beneath the other.
What is subduction?
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