Chemistry, Minerals, & Rocks
Earth's History
Earth's Surface
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
100
This is the negatively charged subatomic particle.
What is the electron?
100
This refers to a gap in the geological record due to erosion.
What is an unconformity?
100
This refers to a map which uses lines to show elevation.
What is topographic?
100
This type of volcano creates ash in its eruptions.
What is explosive?
100
This type of wave is what we usually feel during an earthquake and arrive last.
What is a surface wave?
200
These subatomic particles are found together in the nucleus.
What are protons and neutrons?
200
This refers to the time is takes for half of an unstable material to decay into a stable material.
What is a half-life?
200
This refers to the level/depth groundwater reaches above bedrock.
What is the water table?
200
This type of volcano is mostly made of ash, small, and short-lived.
What is a cinder cone?
200
These type of waves occur within the Earth's interior.
What are body waves?
300
These processes lead to sediment.
What are weathering and erosion?
300
This type of energy source uses turbines places in the ocean.
What is tidal energy/power?
300
This Ocean is locates south of Asia and north of Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
300
This type of lava is medium viscosity and leaves a rough surface.
What is A'a?
300
This type of wave moves rock in a forward-back motion as it compresses it.
What is a P wave?
400
This is a property which states a mineral is formed without any components from plants or animals.
What is inorganic?
400
This refers to the process of determining a rock's age due to patterns in the layers.
What is relative age dating?
400
This results as water cools or becomes more salty.
What is an increase in density?
400
This landform is the result of a volcano collapsing in on itself.
What is a caldera?
400
This refers to the point in the crust where an earthquake originates.
What is the hypocenter?
500
These are the 3 major types of mineral formation.
What are Evaporative, Hydrothermal, and Igneous formation?
500
The original amount of a material which takes 10 minutes to decay to 1g, with a half life of 2 minutes.
What is 32g?
500
The elevation of Point B on the map shown:
What is 900?
500
These two things cause an eruption to be more explosive.
What are water content and silica content?
500
A magnitude 4.0 quake is this many times stronger than a magnitude 2.0 quake.
What is 100?