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Minerals
Scientists
Plate Tectonics
Maps
Matter
100
What combines to make a mineral?
Elements
100
This scientist developed a great way to classify the hardness of minerals
Frederich Mohs
100
What was Pangea?
One giant landmass
100
Lines of latitude run in which direction?
East-West (Latitude is fatitude)
100
Where is matter found?
Everywhere
200
The Mohs Scale determines what about a mineral's properties?
Hardness
200
Alfred Wegener came up with what Earth-moving hypothesis?
Plate Tectonics/Continental Drift
200
This is a boundary where two plates move apart.
Divergent
200
A scale of 1:24,000 on a topographic map means what?
One of something on the map equals 24,000 of something on the ground
200
This describes how much space matter takes up.
Volume
300
This property describes a mineral's tendency to break along planes of weaker bonding (like cake layers).
Cleavage
300
This farmer and and physician is the father of modern geology ("the key to the present is the past").
James Hutton
300
The Himalayas are an example of this type of plate boundary.
Convergent
300
Closely spaced contour lines depict what type of slope?
Steep
300
What does density describe?
How closely packed molecules are.
400
This property describes a mineral's tendency to break in a way that suggests equal strength in all directions (like bread).
Fracture.
400
James Ussher, an Anglican pastor, believed in this theory about the Earth's origin.
Catastrophism
400
What produced the Hawaiian islands?
Hot spot
400
What is the difference between magnetic north and true north?
Magnetic north moves with the Earth's magnetic field. True north is a fixed position in relation to Earth's axis.
400
Low-energy molecules are tightly packed together. What type of matter is it?
Solid
500
Which state in the United States produces the most gold?
Nevada (Carlin Mine)
500
This philospher believed fossils were very still fish that lived in the ground.
Aristotle.
500
Which plate is the largest?
Pacific
500
The notation "BM" means what on a map?
Benchmark
500
What is the formula for determining density?
Density = mass/volume