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What process forms sedimentary rocks?
What is erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation?
100
The underground starting point of an earthquake is called what?
What is the focus?
100
The area where material from deep within the mantle rises then melts, forming magma is called what?
What is hot spot?
100
Who was the first human in space?
What is Yuri Gagarin?
100
Most of the trees located in the boreal forest are called what?
What is coniferous trees?
200
Plate movements start the what?
What is the rock cycle?
200
Which seismic wave moves in a "foward and back" motion?
What is P wave?
200
Magma is no longer magma, but lava when it reaches which part of a volcano?
What is the vent?
200
How many countries are involved with the International Space Station?
What is 16 countries?
200
The goal of what is to improve the way people live?
What is technology?
300
How are metamorphic rocks classified?
What is arrangement of grains that make the rock up?
300
Which measuring device used to measure earthquakes rates the earthquakes magnitude based on the earthquakes seismic waves?
What is the richerter scale?
300
This occurs when an explosive eruption hurls out a mixture of hot gases, ash, cinders and bombs.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
300
In 1958, the United States establlished a space program called what?
What is NASA?
300
The "Space Race" began in what year?
What is 1957?
400
What would happen to a coral reef if the sea level rises?
What is the coral rises/grows upwards with the sea?
400
Which seismic waves occur last and usually produce the most damage? HINT:The answer is the same for both questions asked!!!
What is surface waves?
400
Which type of eruptions have built up the Big Island that is located in Hawaii?
What is quiet eruptions?
400
What is the term that is used for satellites that travel at the same rate as Earth?
What is geosyndronous orbit?
400
Which rock weathers faster? Granite, or marble?
What is marble?
500
Which chemical rock is a form of limestone?
What is tufa?
500
What is the product of the collusion of continental plates?
What is faults, folds and uplifts in Earth's crust?
500
The activity of a volcano ranges from how many years to how many years?
What is from less than a decade to more than ten million years?
500
In what year where the first astronounts on the moon sent out and what was the name of their spaceshuttle?
What is 1969 and Apollo 11?
500
What type of fault is found along the Rio Grande rift valley in New Mexico?
What is normal fault?