Minerals and Rocks
What is a mineral?
What is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a definite chemical composition and an orderly arrangement of atoms.
Examples of Fossil Fuel (3)
What is coal, oil, and natural gas?
The large landmass that scientists say was "200 million years ago"
What is Pangaea?
An earthquake is
What is the vibrations produced by the breaking of rock?
An opening in Earth that erupts gases, ash, and lava.
What is a volcano?
The softest rock on Mohs scale
What is Talc?
The first type of coal made
What is Lignite coal?
Plates are made up of what
What is crust and part of the upper mantle?
Rock above the fault surface moves downward in relation to rock below the fault surface
What is a normal fault?
Magma reaches Earth's surface and flow out through and opening called a
What is a vent?
The gem example of Beryl
What is Emerald?
Biomass energy is what type of energy
What is renewable energy?
The Andes is what type of boundary
What is convergent?
Which fault has rocks on either side of the fault are moving past each other without much upward or downward movement.
What is a strike-slip fault?
When tephra falls to the ground it forms a steep-sided, loosely packed ____
What is a cinder-cone volcano?
A rock is
What is a mixture of such materials,volcanic glass,, organic matter, or other materials?
Energy from earth
What is geothermal energy?
A divergent boundary is what
What is plates moving apart?
The point where energy is first released in an earthquake
What is the focus?
The buildup of these layers forms a broad volcano with gently sloping sides called a ______
Specific rocks that cooled so quickly there is no crystal grains (3)
What is Pumice, Obsidian, and Scoria?
Recycling is
What is using old materials to make new ones?
Plates that are slipping near California
What are Pacific and North American plates?
Which waves move through Earth causing particles in rocks to move at right angles to the direction of wave travel.
What are secondary waves?
When this cycle of lava and tephra is repeated over and over again in alternating layers a _______ volcano forms
What is a composite volcano?