Earth Structure
What are the layers of the earth?
Crust, Mantle, Inner and Outer Core
________ is a break in the rock that makes up Earth's crust
fault or fault line or plate boundary
What is the difference between magma and lava?
magma = under the surface of Earth's crust
lava = below the surface of Earth's crust
Three types of rocks
What is sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?
Igneous means
What is Fire Rock!
The name of the super continent believed by many to have existed 245 million years ago.
What is pangea
Three different movements the earths plates can make. Use the proper names for them.
What is convergent, divergent, and transform(or slip-strike)
The area above the focus of an earthquake on the surface of the land
What is the epicenter
A type of rock will form when minerals cement small pieces of sand together?
Earthquakes are measured by what
What is a seismograph
Describe the Continental Drift Theory
Over 245 million years ago, our separate continents were believed to have been connected together into on big super continent that have moved and shifted over time.
A geological feature of the earth that has been created due to converging plates
What is the Himalayan Mountain Range
Shield volcanoes of Hawaii were created by this?
What is a hot spot?
How are metamorphic rocks formed
What is by heat and pressure beneath the earth
State the relationship between viscosity and silica content
What is high viscosity which means there is high silica content
Three agents of Erosion
What is rain, wind, heating, freezing, and any other natural processes
Where we find most volcanoes and earthquakes
What is the Ring of Fire
The type of fault running through California
What is a transform fault(the San Andreas Fault)
What sedimentary rock formations were discovered at the peak of Mount Everest?
What are ancient fossils of oceanic animals.
_______ ________is a material that formed from the remains of ancient organisms and is used today as a major sure of energy
fossil fuels
Two differences between oceanic crust and continental crust
What is thickness(oceanic is between 5-12 km thick and continental is about 35 km miles thick) and density(oceanic is much denser) and the oceanic crust is beneath the ocean.
The geological feature found in Iceland. What is occuring?
What is two plates are diverging.
Give three characteristics of a strato volcano?
Highly viscous magma and lava, slow moving lava, steep slopes, cooler magma, etc.
Name a sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic type of rock
Answers vary
Name the nine sisters
What is Morro Rock, Black Hill, Cerro Cabrillo, Hollister Peak, Cerro Romauldo, Chumash Peak, Bishops Peak, Cerro San Luis, and Islay Hill