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Vocab II
100
Every planet has one of these, in the shape of an ellipse, because all planets are affected by the pull of gravity of the Sun.
What is an orbit?
100
The liquid that erupts from a volcano.
What is lava?
100
All rocks are made of one or more of these.
What is a mineral?
100
Volcanoes change the earth's surface by either of these two ways.
What is by forming new mountains or by destroying mountains?
100
A non-living, solid matter from the earth.
What is a mineral?
200
Until 2006, there were this many planets.
What is nine?
200
A sleeping volcano.
What is a dormant volcano?
200
Three physical properties of minerals.
What are luster, hardness, and color?
200
Earthquakes are caused by this.
What is large sections of rocks slip past other large sections of rock?
200
The way a mineral reflects light. It is one of the physical properties of a mineral.
What is luster?
300
The largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
300
Melted rock found under the surface of the earth.
What is magma?
300
This type of rock can be made from magma that cools below the earth's surface.
What is igneous rock?
300
This is how weathering affects landforms.
What is breaking and changing rocks?
300
A river-like flow of water in the ocean.
What is a current?
400
It was the smallest planet, now it's just a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
400
A volcano that still erupts.
What is an active volcano?
400
This type of rock is made of tiny pieces of other rocks, shells, and other materials that are carried to rivers and streams where they sink to the bottom and are pressed tightly together. Many years later, these sediments are changed into rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
400
This is how erosion affects landforms.
What is moving weathered rocks and soil.
400
The rise and fall of the surface level of the ocean.
What is a tide?
500
This sentence helps you remember the names of the nine planets known until 2006.
What is My very educated mother just served us nine pies?
500
Weak spots in the earth's crust through which magma flows to the surface.
What are vents?
500
Marble is an example of this type of rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
500
People can control erosion in any of these ways.
What is planting a cover crop, plowing and planting crops in rows around hills, and planting trees on steep hills?
500
An axis is an imaginary line through a spinning object. This is one full spin of an object around an axis.
What is a rotation?