Marvelous Minerals, Riveting Rocks
This type of naturally occurring Earth feature has FOUR main characteristics. They are:
Formed by natural processes
Inorganic (AKA not alive)
Definite chemical composition (like an ingredient list)
Definite crystal structure
What is a mineral?
The process by which rocks breaking down into smaller pieces is called...
What is weathering?
Name ONE of the two scientists we featured in this chapter who contributed to the Continental Drift Theory?
Who are Wegener and Hess?
Divergent Boundaries
Subduction Zones
Hot Spots
This is when sediment moves from place to place.
What is erosion?
Color, luster, streak, cleavage, fracture, and density are all examples of mineral...
What is classification?
______________________ is the process by which rocks are broken down due to a changes in their composition, such as during acid rain or exposure to carbon dioxide.
What is chemical weathering?
__________________ is another name for the supercontinent; a large land mass that covered the Earth before the continents went their separate ways.
What is Pangea?
This type of lava is slow moving and flows gently.
What is pahoehoe?
What is the unofficial Ms McCown rule about volcano facts?
They always come in 3s
There are three ways that heat can travel. The one that involves heat transfer through touch is...
What is conduction?
When water gets into a crack in a rock and the repeated freezing and thawing causes a rock to break, it is called __________ _____________.
According to the Mountain Maker simulation located on the Topics page, this type of plate boundary occurs at a place where two plates are moving away from one another?
What is DIVERGENT?
A crack on the side of a volcano where lava can flow through is called a _________________.
What is a vent?
_________________ is the ease at which water can pass through an object, like a sponge.
What is permeability?
Felsic and mafic are two words that describes a rocks...
This is where sediment stops!
What is deposition?
These giant puzzle pieces are in constant motion due to interactions in the lithosphere.
What are tectonic plates?
What are the three different volcano activity levels?
What are:
Active
Dormant
and
Extinct?
This is lava that forms underwater.
What is pillow lava?
The three different types of rocks are...
Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
One of the largest, slowest moving land masses that is responsible for weathering, erosion and deposition is _______________.
What are glaciers?
Reverse polarity and normal polarity both have to do with the Earth's ___________ ___________. It's also why your compass always points North...for now...
What is "Magnetic Field"?
This type of volcano has two names, and either answer is acceptable! This volcanoes' characteristics are that they are tall, have explosive eruptions, and are made up of layers...like onions...or Shrek.
What are stratovolcanoes or composite volcanoes.
This is the first type of wave felt in an Earthquake.
What is Primary or "P-wave"?