Minerals
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Rock Cycle
Earth Layers
100
A naturally occurring, usually inorganic solid that has a definite crystalline structure and chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
100
Any place where gas, ash, or melted rock come out of the ground.
What is a volcano?
100
Ground movements that occur when blocks of rock and Earth moves suddenly and release energy.
What are earthquakes?
100
The process by which water, wind, ice, and changes in temperature that break down rock.
What is weathering?
100
The outermost solid layer of Earth.
What is crust?
200
A substance that is made up of molecules of two or more elements.
What is a compound?
200
A location where a column with extremely hot mantle.
What is a hot spot?
200
A place within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
What is the focus?
200
The process by which sediment is moved from one place to another.
What is erosion?
200
A layer of Earth that extends from below the mantle to the center of the Earth.
What is the core?
300
The color of a powdered form of a mineral.
What is a streak?
300
Less dense solid rock that rises to the surface of Earth.
What is magma?
300
A break in the Earth's crust along which blocks of rock move.
What is a fault?
300
A rock that is composed of materials formed from solutions or sediments from older rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
The outermost, rigid layer of the Earth.
What is the lithosphere?
400
The tendency of a mineral to split along specific planes of weakness to form smooth, flat surfaces.
What is a cleavage?
400
Magma that has reached the surface.
What is lava?
400
Seismic waves flow outward from the focus in all directions
What is the epicenter?
400
A rock that forms from cooling lava and magma.
What is igneous rock?
400
A layer of weak or soft mantle that is made of rock that flows slowly.
What is the Asthenosphere?
500
The way a surface reflects light.
What is luster?
500
Giant sections of lithosphere on Earth's surface.
What are tectonic plates?
500
The sudden snap in an earthquake that makes the rock return to the rocks original shape.
What is elastic rebound?
500
Rock which forms when high temperature and pressure change from the texture and mineral content of rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
500
The strong, lower part of the mantle.
What is the mesosphere?
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