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Inside Earth
Minerals
The Rock Cycle
Geological
Features
Plate Tectonics
100
The hard, outer layer of the earth
What is THE CRUST
100

This mineral property gives geologists the least amount of information about the mineral.

What is COLOR

100
The naturally occurring "building blocks" of rocks.
What are MINERALS
100

Technology that let us know that the ocean floor has geological features (mountain ranges, volcanoes, rifts, etc.)

What is SONAR

100

The Theory that says Earth began as one supercontinent.

What is THEORY OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT / PANGEA

200

The part of the Earth's inside that is divided into two parts, one solid and one liquid.

What is THE CORE

200

This scale measures the hardness of a mineral

What is MOHS HARDNESS SCALE

200

The three types of rocks.

What are SEDIMENTARY, IGNEOUS, AND METAMORPHIC ROCK

200
The term for layers of sediment stacked, like that which a fossil could be found in.
What is STRATA
200

The two types of earthquake body waves

What are P-WAVES (Primary) AND S-WAVES (Secondary)

300
These two parts of Earth's insides make up the Lithosphere!
What is THE CRUST and THE UPPER MANTLE
300

This mineral has a hardness of 10.

What is DIAMOND

300

These two actions will change a sedimentary rock into a metamorphic rock

What are HEAT AND PRESSURE

300
Why are fossils important to us?
What is A WAY TO UNDERSTAND THE PAST, BEFORE WE HAVE WRITTEN RECORDS.
300

The three types of plate boundaries and their directions

What are CONVERGING (towards each other), DIVERGING (away from each other), AND TRANSFORM (alongside each other)

400

What are all the layers of the Earth, and are they solid or liquid?

SOLID Inner core, LIQUID Outer Core, LIQUID Mantle. SOLID Crust.

400
This test uses the color of a mineral in powder form

What is THE STREAK TEST

400

The three forms of weathering

What are BIOLOGICAL WEATHERING, CHEMICAL WEATHERING, AND PHYSICAL WEATHERING


400

A dangerous part of the Earth which contains 90% of all volcanoes and 75% of all earthquakes.

What is THE RING OF FIRE

400

The energy point from the friction of two faults (an earthquake) on the surface of the earth is called...

What is THE EPICENTRE

500
How can we tell that the Outer Core is Liquid?
Seismic waves are REFRACTED by this layer.
500

This characteristic of all minerals means that they come from non-living things

What is INORGANIC

500
A scientist who studies rocks and minerals

What is A GEOLOGIST

500

The two types of mountains

What are FOLD MOUNTAINS AND FAULT MOUNTAINS

500

Four forms of evidence for the Theory of Continental Drift AND one example for each.

What is PUZZLE PIECES - Continent Fit BIOLOGICAL - Fossils CLIMATE - Coal and Glacial Scrapings ROCK - Same rock found in mountains.