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Earth's Crust
Plate Tectonics
Rock Cycle
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
100
Earth’s largest layer
What is the mantle
100
As Earth’s plates move apart at some boundaries, they collide at others, forming ______
What are mountains and volcanoes
100
Magma that cools below Earth’s surface forms this type of rock.
What are intrusive igneous rocks.
100
The Hawaiian Islands that sit on the Pacific Plate were formed over a ____________________.
What is HOT SPOT.
100
When rocks break, they move along surfaces called ______________.
What are faults.
200
At the very center of Earth is a _________.
What is the epicenter
200
The continental drift theory was proposed by _________
Who is Alfred Wegner
200
The processes involved in the rock cycle include all of the following EXCEPT ________
What is condensation
200
Places, like the Andes in South America, where the Earth's plates mpove together, forming violent volcanoes.
What are Convergent Plate Boundaries
200
Waves generated by an earthquake traveling through Earth.
What are seismic waves.
300
The Earth’s three (3) layers are structured in the following order:
What is crust, mantle, core
300
The presence of the same ___________ on several continents supports the idea of continental drift.
What are fossils
300
Classification of metamorphic rocks would include whether they are _______
What is foliated and nonfoliated rocks
300
Places, like Iceland, where Earth plates move apart froming deep cracks called rifts.
What are Divergent Plate Boundaries.
300
The strength of an earthquake and the height of the lines on a seismogram is recorded by _______________.
What is the Richter Magnitude Scale.
400
Which layer of Earth is plasticlike?
What is the upper mantle.
400
Continental drift occurs because of __________
What is seafloor spreading
400
Sedimentary rocks form from _____________
What is already existing rocks that are weathered and eroded
400
The two factors that control explosive or quiet volcanic eruptions.
What are water vapor and silica (amount present).
400
Ocean waves caused by earthquakes like the one in Indonesia, October, 2009, that reaches a shore towering almost 30 meters in height.
What is a tsunami.
500
A __________ is used to measure seismic waves.
What is seismograph
500
The hypothesis that continents have moved slowly to their current locations
What is the continental drift
500
The changes that take place in the rock cycle are _______________
What is never create nor destroy matter
500
When the top of a volcano collapses,it produces a large depression.
What is a caldera.
500
The crust and part of the mantle just beneath the crust makes up the Earth's ____________________.
What is lithosphere.