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Plate Tectonics
Rocks and Minerals, and soil
Weathering and Erosion
Volcanos and Earthquakes
Miscellaneous
100
The names of the four layers of the earth.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust.
100
The mixture of minerals, weathered rocks, water, air, and living things
What is soil
100
The break down of rock into smaller pieces
What is weathering
100
The thickness and ease of flow of a lava
What is viscosity?
100
Outer layer of the Earth where landforms are found
What is the crust?
200
Name of the landmass before the continents drifted apart
What is Pangea
200
The nutrient added to soil to help plants grow
What is humus
200
the grinding and scraping by wind, water, or human activity
What is abrasion
200
Huge gently sloping volcanic landform
What is a shield volcano?
200
The melted rock in the crust and mantle.
What is magma?
300
Transform boundary
When two plates slide horizontally past each other
300
Salt or halite is an example of this
What is a mineral
300
Loosens and transports sediment by gravity, wind, water, or ice
What is Erosion?
300
Sudden movement along a fault line
What is an earthquake?
300
Mass of ice that moves slowly across land
What is a glacier
400
Idea that all land mass was united and has split and drifted over time
What is continental drift
400
Rock formed by volcanoes created by cooling magma or lava
What is an igneous rock
400
Creates sand dunes and rock arches
What is wind erosion?
400
Instrument used to measure the magnitude of an Earthquake
What is a seismograph?
400
Land that is wide and flat/
What is a plain?
500
Volcanoes, mountains and ocean basins are formed by this process
What is plate tectonics
500
The solid rock below topsoil
What is bedrock
500
Oxidation and acid rain are common forms of this type of weathering.
What is chemical weathering?
500
HUGE WAVE CAUSED BY SEISMIC WAVES THAT ARE GENERATED UNDER WATER ?
What is a tsunami?
500
Type of crystals that form when magma cools slowly
What is large crystals