Vocabulary
A natural, solid mixture of one or more types of mineral grains?
When lava erupts under water, the outermost part crystallizes instantly, forming glassy crust creating.
What is a Pillow Lava?
The three rock classes/groups.
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic Rocks?
Volcanoes can be beneficial to the earth because volcanoes
What is create some of the richest soils on the planet?
Typically causes earthquakes.
What is sudden movements along faults or volcanic eruptions, landslides, and meteorite impacts?
The region of rocks in Earth’s mantle that are hotter than the typical mantle temperature.
What is hotspot?
The 3 types of Convergent Boundaries are.
What is Oceanic-Continental Convergence, Oceanic-Oceanic Convergence, and Continental- Continental Convergence?
2 ways to identify igneous rocks.
What is Texture and Composition?
Materials expelled from volcanoes into the air.
What is Pyroclastics?
When earthquakes occur along the normal fault the displacement is seen on the ground surface
What is Fault Scarp?
A pool of molten or partially molten rock
What is Magma Chamber?
Alfred Wegner's 4 main arguments for the Continental Drift Theory.
What is the fit of the continents, fossil evidence, similar rock types, and ice-age deposits?
What is the difference between Intrusive and Extrusive Igneous rock.
Intrusive Igneous Rock- crystallize beneath the earth’s surface and
Extrusive Igneous Rock- cools on earth’s surface or under water
The different types of Volcanoes include.
What is Shield Volcanos (Easy flow), Composite Cone (alternating layers), and Cinder Cone (made of pyroclastic material)?
Vibrations in Earth’s crust during an earthquake are caused by waves
What is Seismic Waves?
As it solidifies the lava will form a smooth skin that wrinkles.
What is Pahoehoe lava?
Plate Tectonics Theory explains.
What is the formation of volcanoes, mountains, and earthquakes?
The Three Types of Magmas that Creates Igneous Rocks.
What is Mafic Magma, Felsic Magma and Intermediate Magma?
The most common gases present in magma are.
What is water vapor, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide.
The 3 types of seismic waves are. The most powerful and the fastest ones are.
What is P waves, S waves and Surface waves?
Surface waves and P waves.
The Mixture of pyroclastic materials, very hot steam, hot gases, rapid moving lava (125 mph) is a hazard of the Composite Cone Volcanoes.
What is nuée ardente?
The 3 types of folds mountains can be formed with.
The different steps of the Rock Cycle and the steps in between.
What is the
1.) cooling and crystallization of magma to igneous
2.) Weathering, transportation, and erosion of igneous rock to sediments
3.) compaction and cementation of sediments to sedimentary rock
4.) Applying heat and pressure from sedimentary rock to metamorphic rock.
5.) melting metamorphic rock back into magma
6.) applying heat and pressure from igneous rock to form metamorphic rock
7.) metamorphic or sedimentary rock undergoing weathering, transportation, and erosion to create sediments.
The Difference between Caldera Eruptions and Fissure Eruptions.
What is when the summit collapses into partially empty magma chamber and erupts from long cracks in Earth’s crust?
Elastic Deformation is.
What is when rocks are subjected to stress from forces of compression or tension, they change their shape.