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Intro/ Features/ Location
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Minerals
100
The orbit of the earth around the Sun.
What is a revolution?
100
The single continent that was around 200 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
100
Primary waves come before...
What are secondary waves?
100
The different form of magma.
What is lava?
100
Something that was never alive.
What is inorganic?
200
The four branches of Earth Science.
What is Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography, and Astronomy?
200
The theory that the earth's continents have drifted apart through time.
What is continental drift?
200
The definition of intensity.
What is the amount of damage caused by an earthquake?
200
Areas where volcanism is more likely to occur.
What are hotspots?
200
The reflection of a mineral.
What is luster?
300
The definition of Latitude and Longitude.
What is a grib system established to locate any single poin on earth?
300
Definition of the Lithosphere
What is the crust and uppermost mantle?
300
Aftershocks are formed by...
What is the readjustment of plates after a major earthquake?
300
The three different kinds of volcanoes.
What are composite, cinder cone, and shield volcanoes?
300
A mineral breaks into smooth and flat surfaces to form this.
What is cleavage?
400
The Earth's shape, slighty wider at the Equator due to rotation.
What is an Oblate Spheroid?
400
What is the Subduction Zone?
What is the region where one plate moves underneath another?
400
In the occurence of an earthquake the focus is... and the epicenter is...
What is below and above the earth?
400
A feature that is formed when the top of a volcano is blown off.
What is a crater?
400
The three main properties of minerals.
What is inorganic, solid, and naturally occuring?
500
Definition of Astronomy.
What is study of the universe beyond earth?
500
The heavier of the two crusts of the earth.
What is Ocenic crust?
500
A region surrounding the Pacific Ocean, where earthquakes and volcanoes occur more often.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
Mafic lava that cools quickly to form a jagged texture.
What is Aa?
500
A scale that measures the hardness of rocks.
What is the Mohs Hardness Scale?