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Vocab Schmocab
100
Magma, when it go above the surface.
What is lava?
100
Diamond falls as a 10 on this hardness scale.
What is the Mohs Hardness Scale?
100
Yosemite Valley was made by this process.
What are glacier carvings?
100
The deeper you go into earth, the greater this is.
What is heat/temperature and pressure?
100
The process that moves the surface of the Earth to a higher elevation.
What is uplift?
200
Limestone becomes this during the metamorphic process.
What is marble?
200
How a mineral breaks into pieces can be described by these two words.
What is cleavage and fracture?
200
Lassen Peak was formed via this process.
What are volcanic eruptions?
200
The crust and the uppermost mantle make this "cookie crumble" layer.
What is the lithosphere?
200
Valleys, plateaus, and mountains.
What are landforms?
300
This is atop the rock cycle, sending pieces of rock to start the cycle over again.
What is weathering and erosion?
300
Calcite has this cool property, but it may leave your eyes in pain when trying to read.
What is creating a double image (double refraction)?
300
Heat, pressure, and hot, watery fluids change the parent rock into this new type of rock.
What is a metamorphic rock?
300
Our cherry (solid metal) and marshmallow (liquid metal) represent this.
What is the inner and outer core?
300
A naturally occurring inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and definite chemical compound.
What is a mineral?
400
What powers, or fuels the rock cycle?
What is the Earth's heat, deep in the core?
400
Streak.
What is scratching the rock to reveal its color?
400
Granite is made when magma cools slowly beneath the surface. It's now called this type of rock.
What is igneous?
400
By far, this is the thickest, "rice-krispy," layer.
What is the mantle (Lower & Upper)?
400
Rock that is deposited, compacted, and then cemented.
What is sediment?
500
Solid, natural mixture of particles.
What is a rock?
500
The definite composition of quartz.
What is Si02?
500
How we discovered what our Earth is really made of.
What is by measuring seismic (earthquake) waves as they passed through the center of the earth and changed their pattern?
500
This incredible field protects us from soooooooo much cosmic radiation, that we'd be most definitely dead without it.
What is the magnetic field coming from our Earth's core?
500
This plastic like layer of our Earth on which the crust rides.
What is the asthenosphere?