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Plate tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Minerals
100
The outer-most layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
100
The supercontinent that existed 200 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
100
An epicenter is above this point.
What is a focus?
100
What is molten rock found beneath the surface of the Earth.
What is Magma?
100
Non-living, a must to be a mineral.
What is Inorganic?
200
The study of maps.
What is cartography?
200
A chain of volcanic island that forms in a subduction zone.
What is an Island Arc?
200
The Elastic ______ Theory is the straightening of plates, after plates under pressure snap.
What is rebound?
200
A feature produced when the vent of a volcanoe is blown apart during an eruption.
What is a crater?
200
Hardness of a mineral
What is the ability to be scratched?
300
The equator
What is an the imaginary line that sunlight directly hit on an equinox?
300
A Mid-Ocean Ridge is formed due to this.
What is seafloor spreading.
300
Intensity of an Earthquake.
What is the amount of damage an Earthquake causes?
300
Small, steep volcanoes which produce medium think lava.
What is a cindercone?
300
Mohs Hardness Scale ranged between these two numbers.
What is 1 and 10?
400
365 days describes this.
What is the length of Earth's revolution?
400
This is where an ocean trench forms.
What is a subduction zone?
400
The measurement of energy in seismic waves.
What is magnitude?
400
Mafic lava which cools slowly and produces a ropy texture.
What is Pahoehoe?
400
Mineral which do not contain silicon and oxygen.
What is non-silicate?
500
The point at which Earth is farthest from the sun in its orbit.
What is the Aphelion?
500
This boundary is where plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
500
The ocean which the Ring of Fire surrounds.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
A feature produced when an emptied magma chamber causes a volcanoe to collapse.
What is a Caldera?
500
The reflectivity of a mineral.
What is luster?