This term is what we call the land above water that makes up the earth.
What is a continent or continental crust ?
100
This type of plate movement is the main cause of earthquakes
What is a transform plate movement?
100
This type of rock is formed from heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
100
This property is usually noticed first and has to do with what the mineral looks like. Because of this property of minerals many minerals are used for paints.
What is color?
100
This type of molten rock is located inside the earth.
What is magma?
200
These pieces of the earth fit together like puzzle pieces
What are tectonic plates?
200
This term is used to describe molten rock that has erupted onto the earths crust.
What is lava.
200
This when a rock is broken up into small pieces it forms this.
What are sediments?
200
This property describes how the mineral reflects light. Gold has a lot of this property.
What is luster?
200
The layer where we live and that is on surface of the earth is called this.
What is the earth's crust?
300
These preserved animal or plant remains have been buried underground for hundreds of millions of years or more.
What is a fossil?
300
This type of volcano explodes with only ash and solid rock, not lava.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
Pumice formed after the cooling of rock after a volcanic eruption is classified as this type of rock.
What is igneous rock?
300
If mineral A can scratch Mineral B that means that mineral A has a higher amount of this property. It can also be tested with a nail.
What is hardness
300
This layer of the earth is liquid and is the largest layer.
What is the mantle?
400
The two pieces of evidence for Pangaea are this.
What is:
1. Continents fit together like puzzle pieces
2. Fossil Evidence shows the continents were once together
400
This scale is used to classify the magnitude of the earths movement.
What is the Richter scale?
400
The rocks in the grand canyon are made of sand that has been pressed down and compacted. The grand canyon is made of this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock
400
This property is the color of a minerals powder.
What is streak?
400
This layer of the earth is just under the crust at the top part of the mantle.
What is the asthenosphere?
500
When two tectonic plates collide and one moves underneath the other on a convergent plate boundary.
What is subduction?
500
This feature is some volcanoes occurs when magma gets stuck on its way out of a volcano and forms a pocket or bubble in the volcano.
What is a sill?
500
An igneous rock is subjected to heat and pressure, then it is broken down into tiny pieces where it is then compacted together and finally melted and left to cool. This type of rock is the result.
What is igneous rock?
500
List two uses that humans have for minerals
To cut rocks
for fashion
To make machines
Materials that our buildings are made out of
Plants and animals need them in our diet (food)
500
This term refers to the top most layer of the earth as well as the top of the mantle and is used to describe all of the material involved in the rock cycle.