Rocks and Minerals
These types of rocks are formed by heat and pressure.
Metamorphic
The Earth and the solar system originated about _______________ years ago.
4.6 Billion
This is the instrument that detects and measures earthquakes.
Seismometer
What does a direct relationship mean?
As one variable increases the other variable increases as well.
The imaginary lines that run east and west on the earth are known as lines of ____________.
Latitude
These types of rocks are formed by cementation and weathering of other rocks.
Sedimantary
Coelophysis would have first appeared on Earth during this period.
Triassic
Earthquakes happen when these move.
Plates
Name one cyclic relationship that occurs in nature.
Tides, Moon Phases, Seasons...
The imaginary lines that run north and south on the earth are known as lines of ________________.
Longitude
These types of rocks are formed from active volcanoes.
Igneous
Describe the land masses on the Earth 458 million years ago.
Pangea
When plates are moving away from each other they are called __________________ plate boundaries.
Divergent
What is density?
How compact or close molecules are.
When talking of the time zones 15 degrees equals __________ _____________.
One hour
Is marble foliated or non-foliated.
Non-foliated
Namr two fossils that originate from the Silurian period.
Answers vary
The divergent plate boundary in the Atlantic Ocean is a divergent plate boundary, and the newest earth is near or far from the center of the ridge.
near
When a student classifies several objects, that students should always make their classes based on _________________.
Observations
On a map with isolines a set of circles inside one another represents a ____________.
Hill
Various rocks changed by heat from nearby magma / lava are known as _______________
Hornfels
What epoch would the earliest grasses be found?
Oligocene
If an Earthquake happened at 11:00 am, what time would the "s" wave be detected?
11:05:40
If one variable increases and the other decreases this relationship would be known as an _______________ relationship.
Inverse
This flows downhill against the "V" on the map.
Water