CROSSING HOME PLATE
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100
The layer upon which tectonic plates float
What is the asthenosphere?
100
The four types of volcanoes
What are shield, composite, cinder cone, and seamounts?
100
The three types of sedimentary rocks
What are organic, clastic, and chemical?
100
Habitation and Logistics Outpost
What does HALO mean?
100
What are Rayleigh waves?
200
It is the main cause that moves tectonic plates
What are convection currents?
200
What is pyroclastic flow?
200
Type of rock formed by heat and pressure
What is metamorphic?
200
The name of the plane that runs through the sun's equator
What is the ecliptic?
200
The point underground where the rocks break to create an earthquake
What is the focus?
300
The type of boundary found at the Appalachian and Himalayan Mountains ranges
What is convergent?
300
Volcanoes are likely to be found along this in the Pacific Ocean
What is the Ring of Fire (or Mid-Pacific Ridge)?
300
Process by which sediments are carried away
What is deposition?
300
When the sun, Earth, and moon are in that order, it is the eclipse with the lightest shadow cast
What is a penumbral eclipse?
300
Process used to find an earthquake's epicenter
What is triangulation?
400
Where an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate
What is a subduction zone?
400
Occurs when the plate moves, but the magma chamber remains stationary
What is a hot spot?
400
The combined processes of compaction and cementation
What is lithification?
400
March 20
What is the vernal equinox?
400
I know it, thanks to the Modified Mercalli Scale
What is an earthquake's intensity?
500
Fault found at a transform boundary
What is strike-slip?
500
The second most viscous type of magma
What is andesitic magma?
500
The two processes that break apart all rock types on the surface
What are weathering and erosion?
500
The point in the moon's orbit when it is closest to Earth
What is perigee?
500
The distance from one wave height to the next wave trough, or the size of an earthquake's vibrations
What is amplitude?