The amount of time it takes for Earth to complete one rotation on its axis.
What is 24hrs.?
100
The process by which water turns from a solid to a liquid.
What is melting?
100
The breaking down of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
The three major types of rocks.
What sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous?
100
Transform boundaries cause these and ONLY these.
What are earthquakes?
200
The motion that the moon makes as it goes around the Earth.
What is revolving?
200
The process that a gas undergoes to change into a liquid.
What is condensation?
200
Transporting sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
200
Rocks formed out of cooling magma or lava.
What are igneous rocks?
200
There are two types of this boundary: continental v. continental & continental v. oceanic.
What is convergent?
300
Describe the arrangement of the Earth, Moon & Sun when we see a FULL moon.
Sun Earth Moon
300
Large masses of either liquid or solid droplets of water in the atmosphere.
What is a cloud?
300
The dropping of sediment by flowing water, wind, or glaciers when their movement slows or stops.
What is deposition?
300
Rocks formed when their minerals are transformed by extreme heat or pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
300
The islands of Hawaii were formed by this active location in the earth's mantle which causes volcanoes to form at locations away from a plate boundary.
What are hot spots?
400
The phases of the moon which cause neap tides.
What are first and third quarter?
400
The layer of the atmosphere that you are breathing into your lungs right now.
What is the troposphere?
400
The rock type that is created by erosion & deposition.
What is sedimentary?
400
Rocks formed by bits of weathered rock or remains of tiny organisms being pressed together into a solid mass.
What sedimentary rocks?
400
When a plate goes under another causing it to melt and force lava form forming volcanoes at a convergent boundary.
What is subduction?
500
The eclipse that can be caused by a new moon.
What is a solar eclipse?
500
The way pressure would be written on a station model when the air pressure is 1012.2 mB.
What is 122?
500
The agents of erosion.
What are wind, water & ice?
500
Solids that occur naturally and have a definite structure and chemical composition. These are the ingredients of rocks.
What are minerals?
500
This type of plate boundary is responsible for the mid-Atlantic ridge. It also pushed the continents of Africa and North America apart over the past 230 million years.