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Science and Mapping
Minerals
Rocks
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
100
An inference
What is when you explain or interpret the things you observe.
100
The definition of a mineral
What is naturally occurring, inorganic solid that has a crystal structure, and a definite chemical composition.
100
A light colored rock that is high in silica and a dark colored rock that is low in silica.
What is granite and basalt?
100
The two ways scientists have learned about the interior of the earth.
What is direct evidence from rock samples and indirect evidence from seismic waves?
100
A force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume.
What is stress?
200
The variable that a scientist changes.
What is the manipulated variable?
200
How light is reflected from a mineral's surface.
What is luster?
200
The cooling of magma or lava.
What is igneous rock?
200
Two things that increase as you go deeper into the Earth.
What are pressure and temperature?
200
The types of tectonic movement that divergent and convergent boundaries cause.
What are tension and compression?
300
The variable that changes because of the manipulated variable.
What is the responding variable?
300
Minerals that do not split apart evenly have this.
What is fracture?
300
The process of sedimentary rock formation.
What is erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation?
300
The first layer beneath the crust, the "rock circle".
What is the lithosphere?
300
The terms to describe upward and downward folds in rock.
What are anticline and syncline?
400
A possible explanation for a set of observations.
What is a hypothesis?
400
A mixture in which one substance can be dissolved in another.
What is a solution?
400
The remains of plants and animals deposited in thick layers.
What are organic rocks?
400
The reason Earth has a magnetic field.
What is the movements in the liquid outer core?
400
The area beneath the Earth's surface where rock that is under stress breaks.
What is the focus?
500
A map that provides highly accurate information on the elevation, relief, and slope of the ground surface.
What is a topographic map?
500
A solid mixture of two or more elements.
What is an alloy?
500
Forces deep inside Earth and at the surface produce a slow cycle that builds, destroys, and changes rocks in the crust.
What is the rock cycle?
500
The three types of heat transfer, and the one that powers plate tectonics.
What is radiation, conduction, and convection powers plate tectonics?
500
The reason stress builds up to create large earthquakes.
What is friction?