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Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Minerals
100
What is the correct term for the Earth's shape?
What is Oblate Spheroid
100
A mountain chained formed due to the seafloor spreading.
What is Mid-Ocean Ridge
100
Small earthquakes causes from the readjustment of plates after a major earthquake
What is Aftershocks
100
Mafic lava which cools slowly and produces a ropy texture
What is Pahoehoe
100
characteristics of having regular geometric shapes
What is Crystal
200
The date which the Earth is closest from the sun during its orbit & The date which the Earth is farthest from the sun during its orbit?
What is Perihelion & Aphelion
200
Where two plates move apart from one another.
What is Divergent Boundary
200
what are the first waves to arrive from an earhtquake.
What is Primary Waves
200
A feature produced when the vent of a volcano is blown apart during eruption.
What is Crater
200
The color of a mineral in powdered form
What is Streak
300
What is a solstice?
What are two dates per year which direct sunlight strikes highest in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
300
The semi-liquid lower mantle which convention currents run through and move the plates above.
What is Asthenosphere
300
The Amount of damage caused by an earthquake
What is Intensity
300
BB or Marble size paticles of rock
What is Lapilli
300
the reflectivity of a mineral (metallic or non-metallic)
What is Luster
400
A map which shows the earth with true direction.
What is Mercator Projection
400
The movement of heat through the athenosphere which causes plates to move
What is Convection Current
400
What is The point under the surface of the earth where plates fault?
What is Focus
400
Thinnest of all Pyroclasts
What is Volcanic Dust
400
Ability of a mineral to glow or change color under a UV light
What is Fluorescence
500
What is the two points on the earth where the earth's magnetic field's meet.
What is Geomagnetic Poles
500
A chain of volcanic islands that forms at a subduction zone.
What is Island Arc
500
the point on the surface of the earth directly above the focus
What is Epicenter
500
Felsic lava that is ejected into solid fragments of a rock.
What is Pyroclastic Material
500
Non-living, a must for all substances to be minerals
What is Inorganic