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| Inner most area of the earth's interior. | Core |
| Material that makes up most of the core. | Iron and Nickel |
| Material that makes up most of the earth's crust. | Silicates |
| Occupies the most volume in the earth's interior. | Mantle |
| The solid rocky layer located on the earth's surface. | Crust |
| The crust and the topmost part of the mantle make up the: | Lithosphere |
| The lithosphere "floats" on top of the: | Asthenosphere |
| The asthenosphere has the consistancy of: | Silly puddy |
| The crust is thinnest in the: | Oceans |
| The mantle is liquid or solid? | solid |
| The inner core is liquid or solid? | solid |
| The deepest mine is: | 2 miles deep |
| The deepest drilling depth has been: | 9 miles deep |
| Naturally occurring, crystalline, inorganic substances | Minerals |
| Two most common elements found in the earth's crust | Silicon and Oxygen |
| Rocks made fromone mineral | Monomineralic Rock |
| Rocks made up of many minerals | Polymineralic Rock |
| Minerla test where a mineral is scratched against a white tile. | Streak Test |
| Mineral Test where a mineral is scratched on a piece of glass. | Hardness Test |
| Hardest minerals have a hardness of _____. | Ten |
| The way a mineral breaks is often called. | Cleavage |
| Stongest chemical bond that makes the hardest minerals. | Covalent Bond |
| Weakest chemical bond that that forms soft minerals | Van der Waals Bonds |
| Types of rocks formed when magma cools: | Igneous |
| Igneous rocks formed still in the earth are called | Intrusive Igneous Rcks |
| Igneous rocks formed when molten rock cools on the surface of the crust: | Extrusive Igneous Rocks |
| These rocks are formed when sediments like sand become compressed. | Sedimentary Rock |
| The process by which sediments turn into rock is called: | Lithification |
| Fossils can only be found in which type of rock? | Sedimentary Rock |
| Rock formed from intense heat and pressure. | Metamorphic Rcok |
| One proof of plate tectonics is that the rocks form horizontal layers called | Stata |
| When tectonic forces cause an area to fold upward, that area is called an: | anticline |
| This forms when tectonic forces cause the crust to bend downward: | Syncline |
| A break in the earth's crust is often termed: | Fault |
| Plate are in continuous motion. At one time it all the plates were tohether forming the supercontinent: | Pangaea |
| New crust is made in the oceans through the process of: | Seafloor Spreading |
| Number of major plates identified: | 14 |
| Plate boundaries that move away from eachother are called: | Divergent Boundaries |
| An example of a divergent boundary | African Rift Valley |
| Type of convergent boundary that formed the Himilayas | Continental-Continental |
| Type of convergent boundary that formed Japan and the Aleutian Islands | Oceanic-Oceanic |
| Type of convergent plate boundary where an oceanic plate subducts under a continental plate, forming mountains. | Oceanic-Continental |
| An area where two plate slide past eachother is called: | Tranform fault |
| Area on earth where pockets of magma penetrate the surface, sometimes forming volcanic islands | Hot Spot |
| The faster of the two seismic that travel logitudinally. | P-waves |
| Slower of the seimic waves that can not travel through liquid. | S-waves |
| Date from how many seismograph stations are needed to determine the epicenter of an earhquake. | 3 |
| The magnitude of an earthquake can be measured using the: | Richter Scale |
| Earthquake devastation can be meased by: | MM Scale |
| Responsible for the majority of volcanoes in the world. | Plate subduction |
| A large volcano that has a quiet eruption. | Shield volcano |
| The most dangeruos volcano is | Composite Volcano |
| When a volcanic crater collapses it formsa canyon called: | A Caldera |
| Most dangerous part of a volcanic eruption. | Pyroclastic flow |
| Snowmelt mixed with ash forms: | Lahars |
