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Plate Tectonics
Rocks and Waves
Weather
Plate Motion
Minerals
100
Plate tectonic theory states that Earth’s crust is broken into plates that move because of _____________ in the mantle.
What are convection currents?
100
Processes most responsible for transforming igneous or sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
100
Most likely front to occur when a mass of cold air moves into a region occupied by warmer air
What is a cold front?
100
Type of plate boundary where plates slide past each other.
What is transform?
100
Inorganic solid material with a specific chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
200
Ocean crust is being pushed under _________ crust, where it melts back into the mantle
What is continental?
200
Provides the necessary energy (heat) for creating igneous and metamorphic rocks.
What is earth's interior (the core)?
200
This type of pressure center is associated with clear sunny weather.
What is a high pressure center?
200
Located above the focus of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
200
Test that uses the powder of a mineral for identification.
What is a streak test?
300
The time gap between P and S waves or an earthquake can be used to locate this.
What is the epicenter?
300
Which earthquake waves travel at a faster rate
What are P waves?
300
Warm air generally moves _____ and cold air moves _____ because of differences in density.
What is up and down?
300
Rift valley is evidence of what type of plate boundary
What is divergent?
300
Tests for the hardness of a mineral.
What is a scratch test?
400
Rift valley is evidence of this type of plate boundary
What is divergent?
400
Acid rain reacting with limestone bedrock causes ___________ weathering
What is chemical?
400
Temperature changes over time is _________ and atmospheric conditions during one day is ___________
What is climate and weather?
400
A trench is associated with a _______________ boundary.
What is convergent?
400
Special properties of some minerals?
What are smell, magnetism, radioactivity, fluorescence, etc.?
500
Has resulted in the formation of the Hawaiian Islands.
What is the movement of the plate over a hot spot?
500
A state within the United States with a high seismic risk.
What is California or Alaska?
500
Device that measures atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
500
Volcano formed with non-explosive basaltic magma with a broad base and gradual slope
What is a shield volcano?
500
This is often mistaken for a mineral, but was formed million of years ago from the remains of plants and animals.
What is coal?