Atoms with the same number of protons but different number of neutrons.
What are isotopes?
100
An extrusive intermediate rock
What is andesite?
100
The factors that determine magma viscosity.
What are composition, temperature, and dissolved volatiles?
100
The transfer of rock and soil the transfer of rock and soil
downslope under the influence of gravity.
What is mass wasting?
200
Earth's largest plate.
What is the Pacific plate?
200
This property describes a mineral's shine.
What is luster?
200
This texture of igneous rock associated with slow cooling.
What is phaneritic?
200
The lava flow with rough, sharp edges.
What is aa lava?
200
The two types of weathering.
What are mechanical and chemical?
300
The force that drives plate tectonics.
What is mantle convection?
300
What a diamond and graphite are to each other.
What are polymorphs?
300
An concordant igneous intrusion.
What is a sill?
300
A porous rock from frothy lava.
What is pumice?
300
A weathering process aided by small amounts of acid in the water
What is dissolution?
400
The kind of plate boundary Japan is.
What is oceanic-oceanic convergent?
400
The type of bonding that occurs when atoms share electrons.
What is covalent bonding?
400
Why minerals crystallize in a systematic fashion
based on their melting points based on their melting points.
What is Bowen's Reaction Series?
400
A volcano that has these charcteristics:
Broad slightly dome Broad, slightly dome-shaped
–primarily basaltic lava
–covers large areas
–mild eruptions of large volumes of lava
What is a shield volcano?
400
Factors that control soil formation.
What are parent material, time, climate, topography, and plants and animals.
500
A volcano not located on a plate boundary.
What is a hot spot?
500
The most important mineral group.
What are silicates?
500
The separation of a melt from earlier formed crystals.
What is magmatic differentiation?
500
The region of volcanic activity around the Pacific Ocean.