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Volcanoes
Types of Rocks
Layers of the Earth
Ways to Identify Minerals
Continental Drift
100
A place underground where magma builds up pressure.
What is a magma chamber?
100
This type of rock is formed by cooled magma.
What is an igneous rock?
100
The layer of the Earth we live on.
What is the crust?
100
The color of the powder of a mineral.
What is a streak?
100
This man had the first hypothesis on continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
An opening at Earth's surface where magma and other volcanic material is released.
What is a vent?
200
This type of rock is formed by heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
200
The hardest layer of the core.
What is the inner core?
200
The splitting of a mineral along smooth, flat surfaces.
What is cleavage?
200
A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle.
What is a plate tectonic?
300
This type of volcano has thin and calm magma.
What is a shield volcano?
300
This type of rock is formed by sediments.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
This layer of the Earth is made of oxygen, magnesium, silicon, and iron.
What is the mantel?
300
The manner in which a mineral breaks along either curved or irregular surfaces.
What is fracture?
300
The process of plate tectonics moving over time.
What is continental drift?
400
This type of volcano erodes quickly.
What is a cinder cone?
400
The hardest type of rock to break.
What is igneous rock?
400
This is the deepest layer of the Earth we have ever been.
What is the crust?
400
The way a surface reflects light.
What is luster.
400
The name of the thought to be first continent.
What is Pangaea?
500
This is another word for composite cone.
What is stratovolcano?
500
The easiest type of rock to break.
What is sedimentary rock?
500
This part of the core is all liquid.
What is the outer core?
500
The pigment visible on the outside of a mineral.
What is color?
500
The names of the first two continents.
What is Laurasia, and Gondwana?