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Volcanoes
Earthquake
Earths structures
Rock Cycle
Minerals
100
Any place where gas, ash, or melted rock come out of the ground.
What is a volcano?
100
The place where the first motion of an earthquake takes place.
What is focus
100
The outermost solid layer of the earth.
What is Crust?
100
The series of processes in which rock changes from one type to another.
What is Rock cycle?
100
A natural occurring, usually inorganic solid that has a definite crystalline structure to its composition.
What is Mineral?
200
A place where lava and ash come out of.
What is a vent?
200
Ground movements that occur when blocks of rock in Earth move suddenly and release energy.
What is an Earthquake
200
The layer that is located between the crust and core.
What is Mantle?
200
The process by which sediment is moved from one place to another.
What is erosion?
200
A solid, geometric form that results from a repeating pattern of atoms or molecules.
What is Crystal?
300
Magma that has reached the earth's surface.
What is lava?
300
The point above the focus.
What is Epicenter?
300
The layer below the mantle.
What is Core?
300
The process by which water, wind, ice, and changes in temperature break down rock.
What is Weathering?
300
Pure substances that can't be broken down into simpler substances by ordinary chemical means.
What is an element?
400
Giant sections of lithosphere on the earth's surface.
What is a Tectonic plate
400
The process by which rock changes shape due to stress.
What is Deformation?
400
What the outermost rigid layer of earth is made of.
What is lithosphere?
400
The rising of regions of the crust to higher elevations.
What is Uplift?
400
The way a surface reflects light.
What is Luster?
500
A location where a column of extremely hot mantle rock, called a mantle plume, rises through the atmosphere
What is a hot spot
500
The return of a rock to its original shape after elastic deformation.
What is Elastic rebound?
500
A layer of weak or soft mantle.
What is Asthenosphere?
500
An area where a set of deep cracks form.
What is rift zone?
500
The tendency of a mineral to split along specific planes of weakness ro form smooth, flat surfaces.
What is cleavage?