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Scientific Method / Properties of Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquake
Volcanoes
Rocks and Minerals
100
This is a proposed explainition
What is a hypothesis?
100
These are plates that move away from each other
What are divergent boundaries?
100
This is the scale that measures the intensity of an earthquake
What is the modified mercalli scale?
100
This is a wide and broad volcano
What is a shield volcano?
100
This is the texture that has chunks of rock in it
What is fragmental?
200
These are things that change in an experiment
What are variables?
200
This is the name of the superocean surrounding pangaea
What is panthalassa?
200
This is the scale that measures the strength of an earthquake
What is the richter magnitude scale?
200
This is small steeped hilled volcano
What is a cinder cone?
200
This is the texture that has large crystals
What is phaneritic?
300
These are things that don't change in an experiment
What is an invariable?
300
This is the name of the supercontinent
What is pangaea?
300
This is a device used to record and measure seismic waves
What is a seismograph?
300
This is a very explosive volcano
What is a composite volcano?
300
This is the texture that is smooth and shiny
What is glassy?
400
This is the 3rd step in the scientific method
What is forming a hypothesis?
400
This guy is the navy sub commander that discovered mid-ocean ridges
What is Harry Hess?
400
This is a giant wave created by an earthquake on the ocean floor
What is a tsunami?
400
This is lava that cools slowly and has a ropy texture
What is Pahoeoe?
400
This is the texture that has gas bubbles
What is vesicular?
500
This is a conclusion that doesn't have 100% proof but is accepted to be true
What is a theory?
500
This is the meteorologist that came up with the idea of continental drift
What is Alfred Wegener?
500
These are plates that move away from one another
What are divergent boundaries?
500
This is lave that cools quickly and has a jagged texture
What is AA?
500
This is the texture with fine crystals
What is aphanitic?