Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
100
Metamorphic rock turns into by _____ in the rock cycle.
What is Magma or sediment?
100
The word tension is associated with which plate boundary?
What is a divergent boundary?
100
Japan 2011 was a incident caused by a earthquake underwater which created a ________.
What is a tsunami?
100
A piece of evidence for Pangaea from Alfred Wegener is that S. America and ______ fit almost perfectly together.
What is Africa?
100
Which of Earth's layers control the magnetic field?
What is the Outer Core?
200
What is the Earth's thickest layer.
The Mantle.
200
A quick movement along a fault line results in which event?
What is a earthquake?
200
Sedimentary and Igneous rock can turn into Metamorphic rock after intense _____ ___ ________.
What is heat and pressure?
200
A geological event in convergent boundaries are _________ forming.
What are mountains?
200
A ______-_____ fault is caused by shearing.
What is a strike-slip fault?
300
A ________ is a solid that has a definite chemical and crystal composition.
What is a mineral?
300
What popular chain of volcanoes border the pacific?
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
A Hardness above ___ does not leave a streak on a streak plate.
What is a hardness of 6.5?
300
The term shearing is associated to the _________ boundary.
What is a Transform Boundary?
300
Whether something is metallic or non-metallic is called it's ______.
What is Luster?
400
Who is known as the father of continental drift?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
400
What sensitive instrument is used to detect earthquakes?
What is a seismograph?
400
The _____ is the point where the earthquake originates.
What is the Focus?
400
Volcanoes are often formed on what type of zone?
What is a subduction zone?
400
Hardness is measured on a ____ scale 1-10.
What is a Mohs scale.
500
Fossil fuels are a ____________ energy source.
What is nonrenewable?
500
Weathering along with the movement of matter is called _____.
What is Erosion?
500
The first and quickest seismic wave in a earthquake is a _______.
What is a P Wave?
500
What scale is numbered 1-12 and measures the severity of damage to a building during an earthquake?
What is the Mercalli Scale?
500
Most of an earthquake's damage is caused by _______ waves.
What are surface waves?