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Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Continents, Islands and Coastlines
Mountains, Valleys and Plains
Rocks and Minerals
100
Can be found mostly where mountains and islands occur as a result of converging plates.
What is a volcano?
100
Can be described as mild, moderate or severe.
What is the simplest measuring system for earthquakes?
100
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica.
What are the seven continents of the world?
100
Fold, undersea and fault-block.
What are types of mountains?
100
There are 3,000 types of them.
What are minerals?
200
Active, dormant and extinct.
What are the stages of a volcano?
200
The point form which the earthquake originates.
What is the hypocenter or focus?
200
All earth's continents are drifting due to the movement of the tectonic plates.
What is the continental drift theory?
200
The flatness of the interiors of the continents has allowed them to be formed by alternately flooding by inland seas and scouring by glaciers.
What are plains?
200
Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic
What are the 3 main types of rock?
300
Cinder cone, composite, shield and fissure.
What are the four main types of volcanoes?
300
The point on the surface of the earth where the earthquake occurs.
What is the epicenter?
300
All continents were part of a single land mass.
What is Pangaea?
300
Known as the lowest known elevation on Earth at 36,198ft.
What is the Mariana Trench?
300
Feldspar, quartz and pyroxene.
What are the most common minerals?
400
Volcanic rock breaks down to very fertile soil.
What is a benefit of volcanoes?
400
The most famous earthquake measuring system.
What is the Richter Scale?
400
Continental, oceanic and reef.
What are types of islands?
400
Sometimes develops as volcanoes.
What are fold mountains?
400
The type of the Igneous rock that makes up the oceanic crust.
What is basalt?
500
Magma which has escaped the crust of the earth.
What is lava?
500
Occur within the body of the tectonic plate.
What are intraplate earthquakes?
500
Area on the edge of a landmass that meets an ocean or other large body of water.
What is a coastline?
500
The most common valley, formed between mountains and a byproduct of mountain formation.
What are intermontane valleys?
500
Types of this rock include chalk, sandstone, limestone and coal.
What is Sedimentary?