Earth's Interior & Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rocks and Minerals
Miscellaneous
100
What layer is directly beneath Earth's crust called?
What is mantle?
100
Minimum number of seismograph stations necessary to determine the location of an earthquake's epicenter
What is three?
100

Shield volcanoes are known for their

What is mild,quiet, nonexplosive eruptions

100
Sedimentary rocks are the only rocks that can potentially contain
What is fossils?
100
A change in a substance from a solid directly to a gas is called
What is sublimation?
200
A zone where oceanic crust dives beneath continental crust is call a zone of
What is subduction?
200
Magnitude of earthquakes is expressed using
What is the Richter Scale?
200

A cinder cone volcano is caused by

What is large amounts of trapped gas in the magma

200
Rocks that are changed by heat and pressure will form
What is metamorphic rocks?
200

What will be the next stage of our Sun?

Red Giant

300
Mid-oceanic ridges are formed by
What is cooled magma that hardens between diverging plates?
300
Waves that cause the most damage during an earthquake are
What is surface waves?
300

Composite volcanoes are made up of

What is many layers of ash, cinder, and lava?

300
Type of rock formed as molten rock cools and hardens is
What is igneous rocks?
300

How many significant figures are in 0.039?

2 significant figures

400
Because of intense pressure, the inner core of Earth is
What is solid?
400
Longitudinal waves are called primary waves because they
What is reach recording station first?
400

What determines the severity of volcanic eruptions

What is composition of magma?

400
Name the three rock types?
What is sedimentary, metamorphic, igneous?
400

What type of graph is best for showing parts of a whole?

Pie Chart

500
Convergent Boundary occurs where two plates
What is move toward each other?
500
The location on Earth's surface where most earthquake damage occurs is called the
What is epicenter?
500

Volcanoes that form along convergent plate boundaries are located

What is along the Ring of Fire?

500
Rock Cycle
What is the process by which rocks change from one type to another called?
500
How would you describe the nucleus of an atom?
What contains the protons and neutrons of an atom and has a positive charge?