Unit 6EarthStructure
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| 1. Mineral | show 🗑
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| 2. Element | show 🗑
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| show | The smallest unit of an element that maintains the properties of that element.
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| 4. Compound | show 🗑
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| 5. Matter | show 🗑
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| show | Natural solid substance that has a definite geometric shape.
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| show | The color of a mineral in powered form.
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| 8. Luster | show 🗑
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| show | In geology, the tendency of a mineral to split along specific planes of weakness to form smooth, flat, surfaces.
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| 10. Weathering | show 🗑
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| show | the process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another
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| 12. Deposition | show 🗑
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| 13. Igneous rock | show 🗑
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| show | a rock that forms from compressed or cemented layers of sediment
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| 15. Metamorphic rock | show 🗑
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| show | the series of processes in which rock forms, changes from one type to another, is destroyed, and forms again by geologic processes
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| 17. Uplift | show 🗑
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| 18. Subsidence | show 🗑
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| show | A area of deep cracks that forms between two tectonic plates that are pulling away from each other.
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| 20. Crust | show 🗑
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| show | The layer of rock between the Earth's crust and core.
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| show | The movement of matter due to differences in density;the transfer of energy due to the movement of matter.
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| show | the central part of Earth below the mantle
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| 24. Lithosphere | show 🗑
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| show | the solid, plastic layer of the mantle beneath the lithosphere; made of mantle rock that flows very slowly, which allows tectonic plates to move on top of it.
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| show | the strong, lower part of the mantle between the asthenosphere and the outer core.
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| 27. Pangaea | show 🗑
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| show | the processes by which oceanic lithosphere sea floor forms when magma rises to Earth's surface at mid-ocean ridges and solidifies, as older, existingsea foor moves away from the ridge
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| 29. Plate tectonics | show 🗑
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| show | a block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle.
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| show | the boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding
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| 32. Divergent boundary | show 🗑
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| 33. Transform boundary | show 🗑
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| 34. Convection | show 🗑
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| 35. Deformation | show 🗑
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| 36. Folding | show 🗑
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| show | a break in a body of rock along which one block moves relative to another
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| 38. Shear stress | show 🗑
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| show | stress that occurs when forces act to strech an object
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| show | stress that occurs when forces act to squeeze an object
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| show | a movement or trembling of the ground tat is caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move
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| show | the location within Earth along a fault at which the first motion o a earthquake occurs
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| 43. Epicenter | show 🗑
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| show | the edge between two or more plates classifed as divergent, converent
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| 45. Elastic rebound | show 🗑
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| 46. Volcano | show 🗑
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| 47. Magma | show 🗑
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| show | magma that that flows onto Earth's surface
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| show | an opening at the surface of the Earth through which volcanic material passes
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| 50. Hot spot | show 🗑
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