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Rocks
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Earth and Moon
Space
100
Rock formed from lava or magma.
What is igneous rock?
100
The supercontinent formed by all the continents drifting together.
What is Pangea?
100
The point of the surface of the Earth directly above the earthquake center.
What is the epicenter?
100
Earth's motion that causes the day and the night.
What is rotation?
100
Began in 1957 when the Soviets launched the satellite Sputnik I into orbit.
What is the Space Race?
200
Small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things.
What is sediment?
200
Breaks in the Earth's crust where rocks surfaces slip past each other.
What is a fault?
200
The number assigned to an earthquake based on its size.
What is magnitude?
200
The core, mantle, and crust.
What is the three layers of the Earth?
200
A space craft that can carry a crew into space, return to Earth and be reused again.
What is a space shuttle?
300
Rock formed from heat and pressure deep under Earth's surface.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
The process where one plate sinks beneath another plate forming a trench.
What is subduction?
300
The scientific instrument used to measure earthquake.
What is a swismograph?
300
The force that attracks all objects toward each other.
What is gravity?
300
An item that was invented for space, but has uses on Earth.
What is a spinoff?
400
Sedimentary rocks are formed through erosion, depositon, __________________ and __________________.
What is compaction and cementation?
400
The boundary where two plates move apart.
What is a divergent boundary?
400
A weak spot in the crust where molten material, or magma comes to the surface.
What is a volcano?
400
Occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the Sun.
What is a solar Eclipse?
400
A chunk of rock or dust in space.
What is a meteoroid?
500
The type of igneous rock that forms under the surface of the Earth.
What is intrustrive?
500
The three types of stress in the crust of the Earth that creates faults, rift valleys, and mountains.
What is tension, compression, and shearing?
500
The major volcanic belt.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
The rise and fall of water caused by the differences in how much the moon's gravity pulls on different parts of the Earth.
What are tides?
500
An object with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is a black hole.