Boundaries
It's Tectonic
Moh's
Layers
Solid as a Rock
100

What is the effect of a transform plate boundary?

Earthquakes 

100

Identify plate #3

African Plate

100

What is the hardest mineral on Earth?

Diamond

100

Identify #5

Inner Core

100

Sediments?

Sedimentary 

200

Identify this plate boundary.

Transform

200

Identify plate #2

South American Plate

200

What is the softest mineral in Earth?

Talc

200

Identify #4

Outer Core

200

Melting and cooling?

Igneous Rock

300

Identify this plate boundary.

Divergent

300

Identify plate #5

Indo-Australian Plate

300

What will scratch Feldspar but not Corundum?

Quartz and Topaz

300

Identify #1

Lithosphere 

300

Temperature and pressure?

Metamorphic 

400

Name 3 effects of Convergent plate boundaries.

Extreme Mountains

Volcanoes 

Islands

Subduction

400

Identify plate #6

Pacific Plate

400

Rubies and Sapphires belong in the  _________ family.

Corundum 

400

Identify #2

Asthenosphere 

400

What causes large rocks to become round and smooth?

Wind-blown sand and rain (water)

500

What plate boundary causes an Ocean Basin?

Divergent

Ocean basin, submarine regions that cover nearly three-quarters of Earth's surface. Examples: mountainous ocean ridges, deep-sea trenches, and jagged, linear fracture zones.

500

Identify plate #4

Eurasian Plate

500

An unknown mineral is harder than Fluorite, softer than Quartz.  And has a hardness greater than 5 but less that 8?

Feldspar 

500

Identify #3

Mesosphere (Lower Mantle)

500

What is the breaking down of rocks, soils, and minerals as well as wood and artificial materials through contact with water, atmospheric gases, and biological organisms?

Weathering

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