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100
The pieces which make up the lithosphere.
What is tectonic plates?
100
The point inside Earth where rock breaks in an earthquake.
What is the focus?
100
The combination of all processes by which rocks change form.
What is the rock cycle?
100
Large, moving bodies of ice.
What are glaciers?
100
On which tectonic plate are we located?
North American
200
The crack along which rock moves.
What is a fault?
200
The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus.
What is the epicenter?
200
Pieces of rock.
What is sediment?
200
Process by which Earth materials move from place to place.
What is erosion?
200
An increase of 1 on the Richter scale means means many times more energy?
30 times
300
A word that means "sinking."
What is subduction?
300
Where hot rock gets near Earth's surface.
What is a hot spot?
300
A solid that has a definite crystal structure and composition.
What is a mineral?
300
The cutting of trees from an area without replacing them.
What is deforestation?
300
Where most do most earthquakes occur?
Near plate boundaries.
400
The outermost physical layer of Earth.
What is the lithosphere?
400
The study of earthquakes.
What is seismology?
400
The process by which rocks are broken down.
What is weathering?
400
The kind of weathering that breaks rock down and changes its composition.
What is chemical?
400
What are the most common ways rocks are metamorphosed?
Heat and pressure
500
The original continent that became all continents.
What is Pangaea?
500
The kind of volcano formed by alternating layers of lava and ash.
What is composite?
500
Measuring the amounts of different radioactive isotopes in a rock.
What is radiometric dating?
500
A cause of chemical weathering.
What is acid precipitation?
500
Why is the inner core solid, even though it is very hot?
Very high pressure.