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PLATE TECTONICS
WEATHERING/EROSION
Soil
ROCKS/MINERALS
MISCELLANEOUS
100
The names of the four layers of the earth.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle and crust
100
The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100

The layers of soil are referred to as this

What is horizons?

100

These are the 3 types of rocks

What are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?

100
Name of the landmass before the continents drifted apart.
What is pangaea?
200
Causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents
200

The movement of sediments

What is erosion

200
Humus is made of this material

What is organic?

200

These types of rocks are formed from the QUICK cooling of lava

What are extrusive igneous rocks?

200

This is the term for where an earthquake originates

What is the focus?

300
The Appalachian and Himalayan Mountains were formed by which type of boundary?
What is convergent.
300

___________ and ___________ are common forms of chemical weathering.

What are acid rain and oxidation?

300

These are the layers of soil from top to bottom (4 layers)

What O, A, B, C?

300

This is the scale used to rank a minerals hardness

What is the Moh's hardness scale?

300

This term describes a severe storm with high winds, lots of rain, and is fueled by warm water.

What is a hurricane?

400
This is created when a oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.
What is a subduction zone.
400

These are the 4 agents of erosion

What is Wind, Water, Glaciers (Ice), and Gravity?

400

This is the small grain size sediment can have

What is clay?
400

This is the SOFTEST mineral

What is Talc?

400

This is the term for the lines on a topographic map which tell you the elevation at any point

What are contour (or index) lines?

500

This is how Hawaii was formed

What is a hot spot

500
Triangle-shaped area at the mouth of a river and where deposition occurs.
What is a delta?
500

This term describes the movement of water (and nutrients) down the soil layers.

What is leaching?

500

This rock is what makes up continental plates

What is granite?

500

This is what mP stands for on a weather map.

What is maritime tropical?