Earthquakes I
Earthquakes II
Earthquakes III
Kinds of Rocks
Identifying Rocks
Minerals
Oceans
Ocean Creatures
Water & Weather
Clouds
Fossil Fuels
100

These are surfaces where rocks move when they break. 

What are faults?

100

These are ocean waves caused by earthquakes.

What are tsunamis?

100

What type of stress twists rocks?

What is shearing?

100

This is molten rock that flows from volcanoes onto Earth's surface.

What is lava?

100

This is the color of a mineral's powder.

What is streak?

100

Inorganic, solid materials found in nature.

What are minerals?

100

The amount of salt in the water is called this.

What is salinity?

100

These are organisms that make their own food.

What are producers?

100

When moisture falls from the sky as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, it is known as this.

What is precipitation?

100

These are low, gray clouds that often bring drizzle or light rain.

What are stratus clouds?

100

Fossil fuels are the ancient decaying remains of these.

What are plants and animals?

200

These are vibrations produced by the breaking of rock.

What are earthquakes?

200

This is the measure of the energy released during an earthquake made known by the height of the lines on the paper record of a seismograph.

What is magnitude? 

200

This is a scientist that studies earthquakes and seismic waves.

What is a seismologist?

200

These form when melted rock from inside Earth cools.

What are igneous rocks?

200

The physical property of some minerals that causes them to break with uneven, rough, or jagged surfaces.

What is fracture?

200

A substance usually made up of two or more minerals.

What are rocks?

200

These are rhythmic movements of water that carry energy.

What are waves?

200

This is the process of making food and oxygen using sunlight, chlorophyll, carbon dioxide, and water.

What is photosynthesis?

200

When water changes from a liquid to a gas, the process is called this.

What is evaporation?

200

These are high, white, feathery clouds usually linked with fair weather.

What are cirrus clouds?

200

Resources that cannot be replaced by natural processes in 100 years or less. 

What are nonrenewable resources?

300

This is the point on Earth's surface directly above the earthquake focus.

What is the epicenter?

300

What layer of Earth do earthquakes mostly occur in?

What is the crust?

300

This scale describes how much energy is released by an earthquake.

What is the Richter scale?

300

New rocks that form when existing rocks are heated or squeezed.

What are metamorphic rocks?

300

The physical property of some minerals that cause them to break along smooth, flat surfaces.

What is cleavage?

300

Solid materials made up of atoms arranged in a repeating pattern.

What are crystals?

300

These are the rise and fall of sea level, caused mainly by the gravitational pull of the Moon.

What are tides?

300

Tiny ocean producers which float near the surface of the water are called.

What are plankton?

300

This is the amount of water vapor in the air.

What is humidity?

300

These are thick, puffy clouds often associated with fair weather.

What are cumulus clouds?

300

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Cherry Blossom is demonic. 

400

This is an instrument that measures seismic waves from earthquakes.

What is a seismograph?

400

This is when wet soil acts more like a liquid due to the shaking from an earthquake.

What is liquefaction?

400

This kind of fault occurs when there is a break in rocks where rocks in either side of the fault move past each other (instead of above or below each other.

What is a Strike-Slip Fault?

400

Metamorphic rock whose mineral grains are lined up in parallel layers. 

What are foliated rocks?

400

This describes how light is reflected from a mineral's surface.

What is luster?

400

A mineral that contains enough of a useful substance that it can be mined for a profit.

What is an ore?

400

These currents move near the top of the ocean and are caused mostly by wind.

What are surface currents?

400

This is a process for making food that does not require sunlight or chlorophyll.

What is chemosynthesis?

400

This is the temperature at which air becomes saturated and condensation forms.

What is the dew point?

400

These clouds produce the majority of precipitation.

What are nimbus clouds?

400

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NP & JC

500

This boundary layer lies between the Earth’s crust and mantle, marking where seismic waves suddenly speed up.


What is the Moho Discontinuity?

500

This is the area where seismic waves cannot reach because earth's liquid outer core bends primary waves and stop secondary waves.

What is the Shadow Zone?

500

These are waves of energy, released during an earthquake, that travel through earth by moving particles in rocks at right angles to the direction the wave is traveling.

What are secondary waves?

500

Igneous rocks that form when lava cools on the surface of Earth. 

What are extrusive rocks?

500

This a system that ranks the relative hardness of minerals from 1 to 10.

What is Mohs Scale?

500

This compares the weight of a mineral with the weight of an equal volume of water.

What is specific gravity?

500

This happens when deep, cold water rises to the surface. This water is rich in nutrients and supports large amounts of marine life.

What is upwelling?

500

Energy moves through ocean life in these.

What are food chains?

500

Air is this when it holds all the water vapor it possibly can.

What is saturated?

500

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Anna N Dale

500

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