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Intro/ Features/ Location
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Minerals
100
What are the 4 layers of the earth
outer core, inner core, crust, mantle
100
What was the supercontinent 200 million years ago called?
pangaea
100
what is the second wave to arrive from an earthquake?
S waves
100
What is molten rock found under the surface of the earth?
Magma
100
what is the color of a mineral in powdered form?
streak
200
What is the equinox?
the two dates out of the year when direct sunlight strikes the equatorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
200
What is the lithosphere?
the crust and upper most mantle
200
what is a massive wave created from an earthquake on the ocean floor?
Tsunami
200
What is any structure that moves magma to the earths surface?
Volcano
200
what is a non living and also a must for all substances to be a mineral?
organic
300
what is cartography?
the study of maps
300
What is a deep feature that forms at a subduction zone?
ocean trench
300
What are regions where plates under stress move apart?
fault zones
300
What is the openin place in the volcano where the magma errupts on to the surface?
Vent
300
what is it called when a mineral breaks along smooth flat surfaces?
cleavage
400
What is the study of solid earth?
Geology
400
what is it called when two plates slide past one another?
transform boundary
400
What is the point on the surface directly above the focus?
Epicenter
400
What is magma that errupts on the earths surface and begins to cool?
Lava
400
what is the reflectivity of a mineral
luster
500
What is Aphelion?
the date where the earth is closest to the sun during its orbit
500
what is a chain of volcanic islands that form at a subduction zone?
island arc
500
What is the ammmount of damage caused by and earth quake?
intensity
500
What are BB or marble sized particles of rock?
lapilli
500
what is the ability of a mineral to glow or change under UV light
Fluorescence