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Rocks and Minerals
Water
Plate Tectonics
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Volcanoes and Earthquakes
100
The way in which light reflects off of a mineral's surface.
What is luste?
100
Most of Earth's fresh water is found in this form.
What is ice?
100
A super continent that many people believe once existed.
What is Pangaea?
100
The transfer of heat within a fluid.
What is convection?
100
The first seismic waves to arrive at a location.
What are P waves?
200
These are formed by changes in rocks due to heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
200
The upper area of the saturated zone.
What is the water area?
200
New rock is formed in the middle of an ocean and forces older rock to the ocean's edge.
What is sea-floor spreading?
200
The most plentiful gas in Earth's atmosphere?
What is nitrogen?
200
The many volcanoes that surround the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
The orderly, repeating pattern of atoms found in all minerals.
What is a crystal?
300
A mountain that forms on the ocean floor that does not reach the ocean's surface.
What is a seamount?
300
The process in which the ocean floor is forced back into the mantle where it becomes magma once again.
What is subduction?
300
The weather event that begins with usually warm water in the Pacific Ocean and creates warm winters in the US and severe weather.
What is El Nino?
300
A place where rock layers break due to stress.
What is a fault?
400
The scale that is used to rate the hardness of all minerals.
What is the Mohs Hardness Scale?
400
Ocean animals that can move freely throughout the water column.
What is nekton?
400
The pushing together of rock at a convergent boundary.
What is compression?
400
The breaking apart of rock due to wind, rain, etc...
What is weathering?
400
This occurs when the magma in a volcano is very low in silica and becomes extremely thick.
What is an explosive eruption?
500
The breaking of a mineral into flat sheets
What is cleavage?
500
Water is forced out of these wells due to pressure beneath Earth's surface.
What are artesian wells?
500
This man developed the theory of Continental Drift.
What is Alfred Wegener?
500
The movement of sand parallel to the shoreline.
What is longshore drift?
500
The rating scale that measures the amount of shaking created by an earthquake.
What is the Mercalli Scale?