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Rock Cycle
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
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The way they are formed
How are rock groups classified?
100
It is the source of an earthquake (intrusive plate movement)
What is the focus?
100
The temperature of the magma decreases as the viscosity increases
What happens to the temperature of the magma as viscosity increases?
100
Transform boundary
What kind of plate boundary grinds past each other without creating or destroying lithosphere?
100
Iron and Nickel
What alloy is the Earth's core made of
200
Igneous rocks
What kind of rock is formed by the melting and cooling of magma?
200
It is the place on the Earth's surface directly above the focus
What is the epicenter?
200
water vapor
What is the most abundant gas associated with a volcanic eruption?
200
Convergent, subduction boundary
What kind of boundary causes one plate to descend into the mantle beneath the other plate?
200
iron-rick rocks show the location of the magnetic poles at the time of their formation
What is paleomagnetism?
300
Sedimentary rocks are formed from the compaction of sediments and metamorphic rocks are formed from heat and pressure
What is the difference between the way sedimentary rocks and metamorphic rocks are formed?
300
The fastest seismic wave that travels through solid, liquid and gas
What is a P-wave?
300
Ring of Fire
What is the name of the area, that contains the most active volcanoes on Earth?
300
The San Andreas Fault
What is an example of a transform fault boundary?
400
The Earth's interior and the Sun
What is the energy source that drives the rock cycle?
400
Moment magnitude
What is the scale most widely used by scientist for measuring earthquakes?
400
Composite cone
What is the most violently erupting volcano?
400
New ocean crust
What is formed at a divergent boundary?
400
glacial ice that once covered what is now India and Australia
What is ancient climate evidence
500
weathering, erosion,deposition, compaction and cementation
What is order of processes that form sedimentary rocks?
500
The Time Travel Graph
What is graph used to find the distance to the epicenter of an earthquake?
500
Magma rises because melted rocks become less dense when they melt
What is the reason that magma rises towards Earths surface?
500
5 cm per year
What is the rate that the diverging ocean plates(spreading centers) occurs?
500
Cinder cone volcanoes
What volcano occurs in groups, has steep sides and is not very tall?