Earth's Systems
This can't be created or destroyed
What is energy (or matter)?
When two plates slide past one another.
What is a transform plate boundary?
This type of volcano is the smallest.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
True or False: A rock can be turned into any other type of rock.
True
This day has the shortest amount of daylight.
Of the three states of matter, this one has the highest kinetic and thermal energy.
What is a gas?
The boundary that creates rifts and ridges.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
This type of earthquake wave causes the most damage on the surface.
What is an S-Wave?
When a mineral breaks along flat, parallel planes.
What is cleavage?
When the moon is completely dark in our sky
What is a new moon?
The way that energy travels from the Sun to Earth
What is radiation?
This mechanism in the mantle causes the plates to move.
What is convection?
The name for 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The transportation of sediment.
What is erosion?
The 4th planet from the Sun.
What is Mars?
This process separates any impurities from pure water (such as dissolved salt).
What is evaporation?
This plate boundary creates a volcanic island arc.
What is an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary?
The two causes of a Tsunami wave.
An underwater volcanic eruption or earthquake.
This type of rock forms from cooled magma.
What is an intrusive igneous rock?
The process that traps heat and warms our Earth.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
This feature is represented by contour lines that are very close together on a topographic map.
What is steep slope?
The 3 pieces of evidence Alfred Wegner used to prove that the continents were once connected.
What are matching fossils, mountains, and edges of continents.
Scientists observe these 3 pieces of data in order to predict a volcanic eruption.
What is earthquake activity, sulfur dioxide, and deformation (inflation)?
The definition of a mineral (Hint: there are 5 criteria)
What is a naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, with a definite chemical composition, and crystal structure?
A place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out after a large star explodes.
What is a black hole?