Rocks/Minerals
Natural Resources
Plate Tectonics/Layers of he Earth
Measurement/Experimental Design
Virginia Provinces
100
These two properties contribute to making metamorphic rocks
What are heat and pressure?
100
This energy resource gets its energy from the sun
What is solar?
100
this plate boundary is where most earthquakes are found
What is a transform boundary?
100
This is the formula for density
What is D=M/V?
100
This province is known for it's coal production
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
200
These two properties contribute to forming sedimentary rock.
What are compaction and cementation?
200
This type of energy comes from heat within the earth
What is geothermal?
200
This is the process which most scientist think is what moves the tectonics plates across the earth.
What is convection?
200
This variable goes on the Y axis
What is the dependent or responding variable?
200
This province is known for it's "rolling hills"
What is the Piedmont?
300
This is the softest mineral on the Moh's hardness scale
What is Talc?
300
This is an example of what energy source?.jpg)
Hydroelectric (dam)
300
This layer of the earth is liquid and made of hot metal.
What is the outer core?
300
This is the number if independent variables you want in an experiment for it to be valid.
What is one?
300
This province is known for it's very high mountains with metamorphic and igneous rocks.
What is the Blue Ridge?
400
This is the type of rock which is found to have large crystals.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
400
This is about how long it takes for a resource to regenerate if it is to be considered "renewable"
What is 100 years or a human lifetime?
400
Name ONE of the pieces of evidence Wegener used to support his idea of continental drift/plate tectonics.
Evidence from:
Fossils
Climate
Rocks/landforms
400
Ex. "What is the affect of salt water on the height of blades of grass?"
This is the independent variable in the above example.
What is the salt water?
400
This province is known for its mountains made of sedimentary rock and many winding river valleys.
What is the Valley and Ridge?
500
Name an igneous rock
Answers vary
500
Most commonly, the atom of this element is split to produce nuclear energy.
What is Uranium?
500
This plate boundary is what causes most volcanoes to form. (name the boundary and crust types)
What are convergent boundaries between continental and oceanic plates?
500
If you have a graduated cylinder with 25 mL of water, you drop a rock into it and it rises to 37 mL, what is the volume of the rock?
12 mL
500
This is a natural boundary which separates the Piedmont and Coastal Plain provinces
What is the Fall Line?