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Minerals
Rocks
Earth's Inner Workings & Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
These are the building blocks of rocks and therefore the surface of earth.
What are Minerals?
100
These are the 3 classes of rocks.
What is Igneous, Sedimentary & Metamorphic?
100
Solid earth is broken into what 3 layers?
What is Core, Mantle & Crust?
100
Earthquakes are caused by this type of force. Examples would be Tension, Compression and Shearing.
What is Stress?
100
Any spot where magma reaches the surface.
What is a Volcano?
200
Crystaline Solid, Inorganic, and Definite Chemical Composition.
What are the defining characteristics of minerals.
200
This rock is the only original rock because it comes directly from magma, and pure unchanged minerals.
What are Igneous Rocks?
200
This part of earth is known as a moving solid because of the continuous cycle of its particles.
What is the Mantle?
200
This scale is used to measure the intensity/ energy of an earthquake. It is on a scale of 1-10.
What is the Richter Scale?
200
This type of lava has a low viscosity (runny) and creates volcanoes with wide bases, lightly sloped sides, and many quiet eruptions.
What is Mafic Lava?
300
This type of mineral contains the elements of Silicon (Si) and Oxygen (O) and cover over 90% of earth's surface.
What are Silicate Minerals?
300
These 2 types of rocks are formed from pre-existing rocks. One is formed from weathering and erosion the other is formed when rocks are placed under heat and pressure.
What are Sedimentary (weathered) and Metamorphic (heat and pressure)?
300
The continual rise of warm material accompanied by the fall of colder material is the driving force behind all of earth's processes.
What is a Convection Current?
300
Energy from an earthquake leaves when the plate breaks. Anytime there is a large piece of the crust breaking it is called this. Examples would be Normal, Reverse and Strike Slip.
What are Faults?
300
This type of Volcano has many quiet eruptions to build itself up followed by large eruptions which blow the dome off (very powerful).
What is a Mountainous Volcano?
400
A diagram which shows how rocks can go between the classes with adding extreme heat, heat and pressure, or weathering and deposition.
What is the Rock Cycle?
400
This theory explains that the crust is broken into large puzzle peices which are in constant motion due to the convection currents of the mantle.
What is The Theory of Plate Tectonics?
400
A fault occurs underground at the focus. The spot directly above this on the surface is called the epicenter. Energy travels in all directions form of these. Examples are P, S and Surface.
What are Seismic Waves.
400
This is an area at the plates edges where many volcanoes are found. If the volcanoes in this area are located under water then an Island Arc is formed.
What is a Volcano Belt?
500
Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space. All mater is made of a few number of original material called elements, which are represented by atoms. This table arranges the elements based on size and properties as to how they bond to form compounds.
What is The Periodic Table of elements?
500
These 2 types of igneous rocks create the majority of the earth's crust. The differ between oceanic and continental crust.
What are Basalt and Granite?
500
This area of earth's inner workings is solid with the most heat because there is too much pressure to allow it to liquify. This is also the area responsible for life on earth as it creates the magnetosphere which protects earth from harmful radiation from the sun.
What is the Core/ Inner Core.
500
When locating the focus and epicenter of an earthquake seismographs in this many places measure the time between the P and S waves to determine where the focus is.
What is 3 or Triangulation?
500
This area of volcanism is located in the middle of the plate instead of the edges. Hawaii is an example.
What is a Hot Spot?