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The Scientific Method/ Properties of Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rocks and Minerals
100
The study of the solid earth.
What is Geology
100
Thick, light crust found on land.
What is Continental Crust
100
A massive wave created from an earthquake on the ocean floor.
What is Tsunami
100
Any structure which moves magma to the earth's surface.
What is Volcano
100
The substances that are solid, inorganic, and occur naturally.
What is Minerals
200
A conclusion to a scientific inquiry which can be proven.
What is Scientific Law.
200
The theory that the earth's lithosphere is divided into several large plates which moves slowly.
What is Plate Tectonics
200
A region surrounding the Pacific Ocean where the majority of the earth's earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
What is Ring of Fire
200
The process where one plate moves underneath another, and leads to the formation of volcanoes.
What is Subduction
200
The rocks form from the cooling and crystalizing of magma.
What is Igneous Rocks
300
A conclusion to a scientific inquiry which can't be proven.
What is Theory
300
The diverging of oceanic crust and forming of new seafloor.
What is Seafloor Spreading
300
The amount of damage caused by an earthquake.
What is Mercalli Intensity
300
Regions underneath lithospheric plates which are abnormally hot and can cause volcanism in those regions.
What is Hot Spots
300
The sediments are compacted and cemented together.
What is Sedimentary Rock
400
Two dates per year which can direct sunlight strikes to the equator.
What is Equinox
400
The theory that the earths continents have drifted apart through time.
What is Continental Drift
400
A device which measure seismic waves.
What is Seismograph
400
A dark colored, thin lava found primarily in oceanic crust.
What is Mafic Lava
400
The intense heat and pressure underground morphs the rock.
What is Metamorphic Rock
500
Two dates per year which direct sunlight strikes the highest in the northern and southern hemisphere.
What is Solstice
500
The purposed super continent 200 million years ago.
What is Pangaea
500
Regions where plates under stress move apart.
What is Fault Zones
500
Mafic lava which cools quickly and produces a jagged texture.
What is Aa
500
Rocks that forms in layers.
What is Stratification