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How many major tectonic plates are there?
What is 12
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Where do most earthquakes occur?
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire.
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Volcanoes are fueled by _________.
What is magma.
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What is subduction?
What is when one place is submerged underneath the another plate.
100
Earth is divided into ________ time zones.
What is 24.
200
What is the name for the single land mass that existed when the continents were connected?
What is pangea.
200
Which type of wave travels the fastest?
What is p-waves.
200
Majority of volcanic activity occurs at the _________.
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire.
200
Which convergent boundary does not have a subduction zone?
What is continental-continental.
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How are metamorphic rocks formed?
What is heat and pressure.
300
Where is new oceanic crust formed?
What is at the ocean ridges.
300
The epicenter is located where on Earth?
What is on the surface of Earth.
300
What is the most common dissolved gas in magma?
What is water vapor.
300
Which boundary describes the movement of two plates moving away from each other?
What is divergent boundary.
300
How are igneous rocks classified?
What is mineral composition, crystal size and texture.
400
Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
What is Alfred Wegener.
400
Which earthquake scale measures earthquakes based on the damage that occurs?
What is the Modified Mercalli Scale.
400
Which type of volcano looks similar to a tall, majestic mountain that cycles through quiet to explosive eruptions.
What is composite.
400
An oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary forms ______.
What is a deep-sea trench.
400
What is a mineral?
What is naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, repeating structure and definite, constant chemical composition.
500
What is the lithosphere?
What is the upper part of the mantle and crust.
500
List the order the waves would be picked up on a seismograph.
What is p-waves, s-waves then surface.
500
List the three types of magma and state the silica content for each.
What is: basaltic less than 50% andesitic 50-60% rhyolitic greater than 60%
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Oceanic-Continental produces ______ and _____.
What is a volcanic arc and a deep-sea trench.
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List all 7 mineral groups.
What is silicates, sulfides, native elements, carbonates, halides, oxides, sulfates.