What is the effect of a transform plate boundary?
Earthquakes
Identify plate #3
African Plate
What is the hardest mineral on Earth?
Diamond
Identify #5
Inner Core
Sediments?
Sedimentary
Identify this plate boundary.
Transform
Identify plate #2
South American Plate
What is the softest mineral in Earth?
Talc
Identify #4
Outer Core
Melting and cooling?
Igneous Rock
Identify this plate boundary.
Divergent
Identify plate #5
Indo-Australian Plate
What will scratch Feldspar but not Corundum?
Quartz and Topaz
Identify #1
Lithosphere
Temperature and pressure?
Metamorphic
Name 3 effects of Convergent plate boundaries.
Extreme Mountains
Volcanoes
Islands
Subduction
Identify plate #6
Pacific Plate
Rubies and Sapphires belong in the _________ family.
Corundum
Identify #2
Asthenosphere
What causes large rocks to become round and smooth?
Wind-blown sand and rain (water)
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.
Identify plate #4
Eurasian Plate
An unknown mineral is harder than Fluorite, softer than Quartz. And has a hardness greater than 5 but less that 8?
Feldspar
Identify #3
Mesosphere (Lower Mantle)
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