Mineral
Earth's Layers
Volcanos
Earthquakes
Rock Cycle
100
Pure substances that can not be broken down into simpler substances by ordinary chemical means.
What is elements?
100
The outermost solid layer of earth.
What is crust?
100
Magma that has reached earth's surface.
What is lava?
100
Ground movements that occur when blocks of rock in the earth suddenly move and release energy.
What are Earthquakes?
100
The process by which sediment is moved from one place to another.
What is erosion?
200
A substance that is made up of molecules of two or more elements.
What is Compound?
200
Located between the core and the crust.
What is mantle?
200
An opening of a volcano.
What is vent?
200
A place within earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
What is focus?
200
Forms when pressure, temperature or chemical processes change existing rocks.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
300
Can be thought of the building of matter.
What are atoms?
300
Extends from below the mantle to the center of the earth.
What is core?
300
Any place where gas, ash, or melted rock come out of the ground.
What is a volcano?
300
Directly above the focus on the earth's surface.
What is Epicenter?
300
THe process by which water, wind, ice, and changes in temperature break down rock.
What is Weathering?
400
Anything that has volume in mass.
What is Matter?
400
The movement of matter that results from different densities caused by variation in temperature.
What is convection?
400
Giant sections of lithosphere on earth's surface.
What are tectonic plates?
400
A break in the earth's crust along with blocks of rock move.
What is a fault?
400
The process by which sediment comes to rest.
What is Deposition?
500
The tendency of minerals to split along specific planes of weaknesses to form smooth, flat surfaces.
What is cleavage?
500
The strong lower part of the mantle.
What is Mesosphere?
500
A location where a column of extremely hot mantle rock rises through the asthenosphere.
What is a hotspot?
500
The return of rock to it's original shape after elastic deformation.
What is Elastic Rebound?
500
The rising of the regions crust to higher elevations.
What is uplift?
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