Rocks and minerals | Layers of the earth | Plate Tectonics and Convention Currents |
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What is solid, nonliving, formed in nature and has a crystalline structure.
What four characteristics make up a mineral?
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What is crust, mantle, core
What are the 3 composition layers of the earth? ( from outside to inside )
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What is they crashed into each other and form mountains.
What is convergent boundaries?
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What is color,luster,density,hardness,special properties,streak and cleavage and fracture.
List the 7 different test that can be preformed in identifying a mineral
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What is lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, and inner core
What are the 5 layers of the earth by physical properties?( from outside to inside )
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What is they move away from each other and they create mid ocean ridges.
What is divergent boundaries ?
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What is it shows that hardness of minerals.
What is Moh's hardness scale?
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What is continental crust is the land and oceanic crust the ocean's crust.
What is the different from continental and oceanic crust?
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What is they rub/slide into each other and that creates earthquakes.
What is Transform boundaries?
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What is that shows the hardness of minerals
How do we use the moh's harness scale?
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What is a long time ago all continents were one and drifted apart? It was called Pangaea.
What is the theory of continental drift?
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What is deformation
What is a change in the earth called?
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What is cooling,melting,heat and pressure, compaction and cementation and weathering and erosion.
Describe the 5 processes that are occurring in the rock cycle
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What is Pangea.
What is the super continent called?
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What is asthenosphere.
Where do convection currents take place?
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