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Volcanoes
Earth's Layers
Plate Boundaries
Rocks
Grab Bag
100
This is the largest, most destructive type of volcano.
What is a composite volcano?
100
This is the thinnest layer of the Earth
What is the crust?
100
DAILY DOUBLE !
This is the type of plate boundary that runs through California.
100
This process creates and reforms rocks without stopping.
What is the rock cycle?
100
This holiday will not line up with Thanksgiving again for another 75,000 years.
What is Hanukkah?
200
The Hawaiian islands were formed by these type of volcanoes.
What are shield volcanoes
200
This is the hottest layer of the Earth
What is the inner core?
200
When one plate pushes under another
What is subduction?
200
This type of rock is formed by cooled lava or magma
What is igneous?
200
The very first quiz of the year in Earth Science covered this topic
What is the scientific method
300
The largest eruption in the United States in the past 50 years was at this volcano in Washington state.
What is Mt. St. Helens
300
This is the combination of the crust and the hard upper part of the mantle
What is the lithosphere?
300
This is the name of the giant supercontinent that began to break apart about 200 million years ago
What is Pangaea?
300
Heat and ____________ are the key ingredients in forming metamorphic rock.
What is pressure?
300
These three teachers stayed overnight with 6th graders at Camp Hess Kramer.
Who are Ms. Carlisi, Ms. Schwarz, and Mr. McMillan
400
Currently only four volcanoes in the world have these.
What are lava lakes?
400
This type of wave from an earthquake can't pass through the liquid outer core.
What are S-waves?
400
A volcano that does not form at a plate boundary is usually formed by this
What is a hot spot
400
This type of igneous rock is black and shiny, like glass.
What is obsidian?
400
This 6th grader won the Homecoming t-shirt contest.
Who is Louie?
500
These are the only two U.S. states to have a volcano eruption this year. (NO PEEKING!)
What are Hawaii and Alaska
500
These are the two metals scientists believe make up most of the inner core? (name one)
What is iron (or nickel) ?
500
This mountain range if formed by the convergent boundary between the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate.
What are the Himalayas.
500
A chemical reaction within this type of sedimentary rock can lead to a sinkhole
What is limestone?
500
This is the name of the male frog that lives in room 107
What is Banana?