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Volcanoes
minerals
Earthquakes
Rock cycle
Plate tectonics
100
Any place where gas, ash, or molten rock comes out of the ground.
What is a volcano
100
A substance made up of molecules of two or more elements.
What is a compound
100
Directly above the focus on Earth's surface
What is an epicenter
100
An area where a set of deep cracks form.
What is a rift zone
100
The one large landmass 245 million years ago
What is Pangea
200
Hot ash and bits of rock ejected into the atmosphere.
What is pyroclastic material
200
A pure substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances.
What is an element
200
The place within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
What is the focus
200
Rock made up of minerals formed from solutions or sediment from older rock
What is sedimentary rock
200
The process to explain the age and magnetic patterns of sea floor rocks.
What is sea floor spreading
300
A location where extremely hot mantle rock, called mantle plume, rises through the asthenosphere.
What is a hot spot
300
What 2 things cooling magma forms
What is Pegmatite and Plutons
300
A break in the Earth's crust along which blocks of rock move
What is a fault
300
The rising regions of the crust to higher elevations.
What is Uplift
400
basin-shaped depression
What is a caldera
400
The return of rock to its original shape after deformation.
What is elastic rebound
400
The rock that Egyptians used to build the Great Sphinx and the pyramids at Giza
What is limestone
400
The queen of the single ladies// When a denser plate subducts under another less dense plate
What is Beyonce and slab pull
500
The temperature lava can reach and rise above.
What is 1,200 degrees celcius
500
Compounds that form when elements such as fluorine and chlorine combine with elements such as calcium.
What is Halides
500
The largest earthquake recorded in the united States
What is the 1964 Alaskan earthquake
500
The dwelling in Colorado that was home to the ancient Puebloans from about 550 to 1300 CE.
What is the Cliff palace
500
The thickest part of the South American plate
What is continental crust