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Rocks and Minerals
Water Cycle
Plate Tectonics
Earth Quakes
Atmosphere
100
Naturally occurring solids, Formed from inorganic processes, Crystal structure, Specific chemical composition
What is a Mineral.
100
Evaporation, Transpiration, Condensation, Deposition, Precipitation, Surface Runoff, Infiltration.
What is the Water Cycle.
100
Places that move apart.
What is Divergent Plate Boundaries.
100
Place within the Earth where the rock breaks.
What is the Focus.
100
A mixture of gas and suspended particles.
What is the Atmosphere.
200
Rocks formed by the cooling and solidification of magma
What is an Igneous Rock.
200
No matter or water exchange.
What is a Closed System.
200
Plate boundaries are marked by...
What is Faults.
200
The point on the ground's surface directly above the focus.
What is the Epicenter.
200
Lowest layer of the Atmospheric Temperature Profile.
What is the Troposphere.
300
The continuous process by which rocks are created, changed, destroyed, and formed again.
What is the Rock Cycle.
300
Ease of downward flow through rock.
What is Rock Permeability.
300
Plates that move together.
What is Convergent Plate Boundaries.
300
Compression (convergent plate boundaries), Tensional (divergent plate boundaries), and Shear (transform plate boundaries).
What is the Types of Stress.
300
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is Humidity.
400
Luster, Structure, Habit, Hardness, Cleavage, Streak, and Color
What is the Classification of Minerals.
400
Space in underground rock.
What is Rock Porosity.
400
Long lived sources of hot up-swelling mantle rock.
What is Mantle Plumes (Hot Spot)
400
Waves that move up, down, and side to side.
What is Rayleigh, or L, Wave.
400
The condition when air cannot hold any more water vapor.
What is Saturation.
500
Silicate, Oxide, Carbonate, Sulfate.
What is Mineral Families.
500
Layer of impermeable rock confining aquifers.
What is Aquiclude.
500
Proposed in 1912 by Alfred Wegner.
What is Continental Drift Hypothesis.
500
Push and Pull waves, and Side to Side waves.
What is P and S Waves.
500
When no external heating or cooling occurs.
What is the Adiabatic Principle.