Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Minerals
Plate Tectonics
Rock Cycle
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 move suddenly and release energy.
What is an earthquake?
100
A naturally occurring usually inorganic solid that has a definite crystalline structure and chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
100
The proposed process that explains the age and magnetic patterns of sea-floor rocks.
What is sea-floor spreading?
100
The process by which water, wind, ice and changes in temperature break down rock.
What is weathering?
200
Melted rock that is less dense than solid rock.
What is magma?
200
A place within earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
What is the focus?
200
The building blocks of matter.
What is an atom?
200
The explanation of how and why features in earth's crust form and continental movements.
What is plate tectonics?
200
The process by which sediment is moved from one place to another.
What is erosion?
300
Magma that has reached earth's surface.
What is lava?
300
Directly above the focus on earth's surface.
What is the epicenter?
300
Pure substances that can not be broken down into simpler substances by ordinary chemical means.
What is an element?
300
the divided plates of the lithosphere.
What is tectonic plates?
300
The process by which sediment comes to rest.
What is deposition?
400
Lava and clouds of ash erupt from this opening of a volcano.
What is a vent?
400
Where two or more tectonic plates meet.
What is A tectonic plate boundary?
400
Anything that has volume and mass.
What is matter?
400
where two plates collide.
What is convergent boundaries?
400
The rock that forms when magma or lava cools and hardens to become a solid.
What is igneous rock?
500
A location where a column of extremely hot mantle rock, rises through the asthenosphere.
What is a hot spot?
500
The process by which rock becomes deformed and changes shape due to stress.
What is deformation?
500
A solid geometric form that results from a repeating pattern of atoms or molecules.
What is a crystal?
500
A boundary at which two plates move past each other horizontally.
What is transform boundary?
500
The type of rock that forms when minerals that form from solutions or sediment get pressed and cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock?
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