Who first proposed the theory of continental drift?
What is Alfred Wegner
100
A volcano that is erupting or has shown signs that may erupt in the future is called________________
What is active
100
What are the 3 types of rocks?
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
100
The transfer of energy through space is called
What is radiation
100
What are Earth's 4 layers?
What is crust, mantle, inner core, and outer core
200
A break in Earth’s crust where rocks have slipped past each other is a______________________
What is fault
200
Magma that is low in silica is
What is dark in color
200
The heat and pressure inside the Earth cause granite to change. The resulting material that formed would be
What is metamorphic rock
200
What erupts through the valley of the mid-ocean ridge?
What is molten material
200
How could the same plant fossils appear on six different continents, separated by thousands of miles of water?
What is the continents were once a large land mass
300
The three types of stress
What is shearing, compression, and tension
300
Inside a volcano, magma collects in a pocket called a________________.
What is Magma Chamber
300
Granite, an igneous rock, can become the metamorphic rock, gneiss. In order for this to happen, granite must_________
What is undergo heat and pressure deep in the crust
300
Which statement best describes the mantle of Earth?
What is the mantle lies between crust and core
300
Yellowstone National Park has recently been classified as a super volcano. The last major eruption was approximately 600,000 years ago. The majority of the rocks in Yellowstone are
What is igneous
400
Sea-floor spreading occurs on
What is both sides of the mid ocean ridge
400
An area where magma melts through the crust in the middle of a plate is called a(n)
What is hot spot
400
In order for the sedimentary rock to become metamorphic rock, the sedimentary rock must
What is be exposed to the heat of the mantle and gravity pulling Earth’s crust downward
400
The flow that transfer heat within fluid is called_________
What is convection current
400
Igneous rock that formed when magma hardened beneath Earth’s surface is called
What is intrusive rock
500
Geologists have discovered that much of the Rocky Mountains are formed from different types of sedimentary rock. That means that an ocean must have once covered the area. What statement best describes why the Rocky Mountains are so high?
What is the subduction of one plate under another
500
Magma that cools deep underground produces
What is large crystals
500
On the walls of the Grand Canyon, you can see many layers of sandstone, a sedimentary rock, one on top of the other. What statement best describes how those layers formed?
What is erosion and deposition
500
Since geologists cannot look inside the Earth, they rely on seismic waves to understand the composition of the Earth. Through the use of the seismic waves, they have discovered that the mantle is________________
What is solid with properties of a liquid
500
_____________is a measure of how much mass there is in a volume of a substance.