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Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
Geology
Igneous Rock Structures
Earth as a Peach
100
Definition of the Ring of Fire.
What is a ring of volcanoes surrounding the Earth's Pacific Ocean?
100
The supercontinent.
What is Pangea?
100
The definition of geology.
What is the study of the Earth?
100
The definition of igneous rocks.
What are rocks that form from cooled molten rock?
100
Part of the Earth that a peach's skin corresponds to.
What is the crust?
200
The location of most volcanoes is where these collide.
What are continental plates?
200
One piece of evidence for the existence of a supercontinent.
What are similar fossils, coal beds, mountain ranges, or geographic formations?
200
Minerals are NOT this.
What are rocks?
200
Intrusive means this.
What is forming below ground.
200
Part of the Earth that the peach's flesh corresponds to.
What is the mantle?
300
A volcano with layers and steep and symmetrical sides.
What is a stratovolcano?
300
The Theory of Plate Tectonics helped us determine that we are moving west at this many centimeters a year.
What is 2?
300
This type of rock is formed when other types of rocks are under great pressure and/or heat.
What are metamorphic rocks?
300
Vocabulary word for magma that cools after it is squeezed into a horizontal crack between rock layers.
What is a sill?
300
The largest layer.
What is the mantle?
400
This type of volcano is easily recognizable due to its broad and gently sloping sides, resembling something a warrior would carry.
What is a shield volcano?
400
Physicists said this part of Alfred Wegner's theory was incorrect.
What is the Earth's rotation causes the continents to separate?
400
The difference between a quarry and a mine.
What is that a mine is a small shaft deep underground, while a quarry is a large open pit?
400
Vocabulary word for when magma cools underground before reaching the surface.
What is a batholith?
400
Reason the inner core is solid.
What is pressure?
500
This is a famous stratovolcano in Washington State.
What is Mount St. Helens?
500
Radioactivity deep in the Earth's mantle causes this type of heat to move the tectonic plates.
What are convection currents?
500
Sedimentary rocks nickname is this.
What are "story-telling rocks"?
500
Example of a batholith with a carving of confederate generals, located in Georgia.
What is Stone Mountain?
500
This is the MORE dense type of crust.
What is the oceanic crust?