Volcanoes & Geologic Time: When was that flow?
Main type of rock erupted from volcanoes
What are igneous rocks?
Determines the strength of earthquakes
What is magnitude?
The spaces between grains
What is porosity?
Solid chemical compounds that make up rock compositions.
What are minerals?
giant meteor
What killed the dinosaurs?
Chain of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean.
What is the ring of fire?
A region that lies on top of a mantle plume
What is a hot spot?
How connected the spaces between grains are
Permeability
Rock before it undergoes metamorphism
What is the parent rock?
The age of Earth
What is 4.65 BY?
The three types of plate boundaries
What are convergent, transform, and divergent boundaries?
An underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock or deposits capable of supplying usable quantities of water.
What is an aquifer?
A rock formed from smaller pieces of rock
What is a clastic sedimentary rock?
igneous rock that is high in feldspar and quartz
felsic
The term that describes the height of a specific location.
What is elevation?
The space between contour lines
What is a contour interval?
Two factors that impact the grade of metamorphism
Pressure and temperature