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Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
Space
California's Resources
Rocks and Minerals
100
This volcano has gentle sloping sides.
What is a shield cone?
100
The San Andreas is what type of fault?
What is a transform or strike/slip fault.
100
What is the age of our solar system?
What is 4 billion years
100
What is the source of Hesperia's water?
What is ground water/wells.
100
When lava solidifies it turns into this type of rock.
What is igneous or extrusive igneous.
200
This volcano is associated with violent eruptions and steep sides?
What is a composite cone?
200
Where is the focus of an earthquake located?
What is under the surface.
200
What is it called when a star explodes?
What is a supernova
200
Name three hazards California is exposed to...
What are earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes?
200
What is the type of rock that contains fossils?
What is sedimentary
300
What is the name of the composite cone in Washington state that erupted violently in the 1980s?
What is Mount Saint Helens?
300
What is the scale used to measure the intensity of earthquakes? .
What is the Richter Scale
300
This theory describes how the universe began.
What is the Big Bang
300
This city has endured the most destruction do to earthquakes
What is San Francisco.
300
What is the type of rock that has undergone change from heat and pressure?
What is metamorphic
400
When lava doesn't reach the surface it is called?
What is a magma.
400
What is the term called when one plate goes under another another plate (at a convergent boundary).
What is subduction
400
This property helps to determine the temperature of a star.
What is color.
400
What is California's main metal resource?
What is gold?
400
A solid mass of mineral or mineral like matter that occurs naturally on our planet is called a ...
What is a rock?
500
Most volcanoes are located on this type of boundary?
What is a convergent boundary.
500
What happens at divergent boundaries in the middle of the ocean?
What is sea floor spreading.
500
This type of telescope "listens" to space.
What is a radio telescope
500
What is the term used to describe the removal of salt from seawater?
What is desalination
500
What is the softest mineral classified on Moh's hardness scale?
What is talc.