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Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Minerals
100
What is the variable in an experiment?
What is the part of the experiment that changes.
100
what is mid-ocean ridge?
What is a mountain chain formed due to seafloor spreading.
100
What is the point under the surface where the plates fault called?
What is the focus.
100
What is the difference between the molten rock under the furcae of the earth and the stuff that erupts out of the volcanoe and cools?
What is the first thing is magma and the second thing is lava.
100
What do silicate minerals contain?
What is silicon and oxygen.
200
What is it called when the earth makes an orbit around the sun, and how long does it take to make one orbit?
What is Revolution and 365 days.
200
What is the Lithosphere and what is the texture of it?
What is the crust and uppermost mantle and a solid, rigid layer.
200
What is the defintion of the ring of fire?
What is the region around the pacific ocean where most of the earth's earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
200
what are hot spots?
What are areas under the the lithospheric plates which are very hot and can cause volcanism.
200
What is luster?
What is metallic and non-metallic.
300
What is the difference between Perihelion and Aphelion?
What is Perihelion is when the earth is closest ot the sun and Aphelion is the opposite.
300
What is the semi- liquid lower mantle which convection currents run through and move the plates above?
What is the Asthenosphere.
300
What does a Seismograph measure?
What is a device that measures seismic waves.
300
What is the lava that cools fast slowly and cools in a ropy texture?
What is Pahoehoe.
300
What is the moh's scale?
What is hardness scale from 1-10.
400
What is the study of maps?
What is Cartography.
400
What is the convection current?
What is the movement of heat through the Asthenosphere which causes plates above to move.
400
What is the difference between p waves and s waves?
What is p waves are the first waves to arrive and secondary waves are the second aftershock waves.
400
What is the size of Lapilli?
What is the size of marbles.
400
What is it called when a mineral changes color under UV light?
What is Fluorescence.
500
What is the name of the popular map that shows the earth with true direction?
What is the Mercator Projection.
500
What is the difference between the divergent, convergent, and transform Boundaries?
What is in order- plates move apart, move toward eachother, and slide past eachother.
500
What is the difference between magnitude and intensity?
What is Magnitude is the energy and intensity is amount of damage.
500
What is another name for a composite volcano?
What is a Stratovolcanoe.
500
What is the difference between inorganic and organic?
What is inorganic is non living and organic is living or was living.