Minerals
Rocks
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Weathering And Erosion
100
A naturally occuring solid substance
What is a mineral?
100
Rocks that form from the cooling of melted rock
What is igneous rock?
100
A special machine that measures earthquakes
What is a seismograph?
100
An opening in earth's crust
What is a volcano?
100
The chemical breakdown of rock
What is weathering?
200
The shininess of a mineral
What is lustre?
200
A rock that forms very deep and very slowly
What is granite?
200
An earthquake size that causes total destruction
What is > 8.0 magnitude?
200
A famous volcano that eruptd in 1980
What is Mount St Helens?
200
A body of ice that moves like a slow bulldozer
What is a glacier?
300
The mark left behind from rubbing a mineral
What is streak?
300
A rock that forms when lava cools very quickly
What is obsidian?
300
Plates that push together
What is a reverse fault?
300
One of the worst eruptions in history
What is Krakatau?
300
A combination of eroded rocks and minerals
What is soil?
400
A golden colored mineral that is not Gold
What is pyrite?
400
A rock with the smallest particles
What is shale?
400
The location directly above the focus of an earthquake
What is a epicentre?
400
A dangerous volcano that might erupt
What is Mount Vesuvieus?
400
The dropping of sediment
What is deposition?
500
Has a mineral hardness of 8
What is Topaz?
500
A rock made from shells and skeletons of organisms once alive
What is limestone?
500
Plates that move past each other
What is a transform fault?
500
A place where the most volcanos are
What is the ring of fire?
500
The removing of soil materials dissolved in water
What is leaching?
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