Rocks and Minerals
The name of the property described by drawing a line on a ceramic plate with a rock or mineral.
What is streak?
Most earthquakes occur here.
What are plate boundaries?
The geological home of a majority of volcanoes.
Plate boundaries in the Pacific Ocean
Rocks are put into categories according to this.
What is how they are formed?
The four layers of the earth.
What are the inner core, the outer core, the mantle and the crust?
The two different ways rocks and minerals break, jagged and uneven or clean and flat.
What are fracture and cleavage?
What earthquakes produce that do damage.
What are waves?
Place where the Earth's crust is thin and volcanoes may occur.
What is a hot spot?
The three types of rock categories.
What are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary?
The last super-continent.
What is Pangea?
A mineral that bubbles when water or vinegar is poured on it can be said to be this.
What is reactive.
A giant tidal wave following an earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
Magma when it is on the Earth's surface.
What is Lava?
Rock formed by continual changes in heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
Convection currents in the mantle cause this to happen.
What is tectonic plate movement?
You would use the Moh's Scale to measure this property.
What is hardness?
A Richter scale measures this.
What is the intensity or strength of an earthquake?
A change in the weather over a long period of time caused by volcanic ash.
What is climate change?
Fossils are found in this category of rock.
What is sedimentary?
The three types of plate boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent and transform?
5 properties of minerals.
What are: Hardness, Fracture, Cleavage, Streak, Colour, Lustre and Reactivity?
The location on the Earth's surface directly above where the fault occurred.
What is the epicenter?
A volcano that has not erupted for a very long time.
What is dormant?
A rock category formed from fiery lava.
What is igneous rock?
One plate moves under another and towards the center of the earth where it melts.
What is subduction?