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Vocab
Soil
Rocks & Minerals
Plate Tectonics
Misc.
100
Continental Drift
An idea that the continents were once together and then spread apart over time
100
Described by ______ and _____.
Texture and color
100
Properties
Color, transparency, luster, and hardness
100
Transform Boundary
When plates slide
100
What was the garden problem?
The soil didn't contain enough organic matter.
200
Observation
The action of observing someone or something carefully to gain information
200
Topsoil
Top layer of soil
200
Igneous Rock
Formed by heating and cooling of magma
200
Convergent Boundary
When plates collide
200
Convection Current
Current of magma that has a difference of temperature to create a current in the lower mantel.
300
Geologist
People who study rocks and minerals
300
Grassland Soil
High in organic matter
300
Metamorphic Rock
Formed by heat and pressure
300
Divergent Boundary
When plates spread apart
300
Transform Boundary forms ______.
Earthquakes
400
Paleontologist
Someone who studies fossil animals and plants
400
What it organic matter?
Decomposed plants and animals
400
Sedimentary Rock
Formed by weathering and Erosion
400
Plate Tectonics
Plates underneath the earths surface that form earthquakes, bodies of water, tsunamis, volcanoes, and mountains.
400
Convergent Boundary forms ______.
Earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains
500
Lithosphere
The outer part of the earth. Contains the crust and upper mantel
500
Sand, silt & clay smallest to largest
Clay, silt, & sand
500
True or false? Hardness is tested with a seismograph?
False. Hardness is tested with Moh's hardness scale.
500
Subduction
The movement of the edge of a plate of the earth’s crust in the mantle under another plate
500
Divergent Boundary forms ____.
Volcanic mountains and earthquakes.