Inside Earth Q3

What is a huge hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain?

What connects the magma chamber of a volcano to its vent?

What is the inner most part of the earth?

Which wave is the fastest and arrives first?

Which of the following is not one of the five characteristics defining a mineral?

Using the Moh's hardness scale, what is the softest mineral?

A collision between continental crusts produces a ______________?

In what direction do seismic waves carry the energy of an earthquake?

What is the name of the super continent of ALL landmasses of long a go?

A low silica, low viscosity magma volcano will probably have a _______________ eruption?

An explosive volcano typically forms a _________________?

A high silica, high viscosity magma volcano will probably result in a ______________ eruption.

A place where two boundaries push together?

Which group of rocks is most likely to contain fossils?

What is the color of a mineral's powder?

Using the Moh's hardness scale, what is the hardest mineral?

Minerals split apart rough and uneven.  MOST minerals split unevenly this way.

Who's hypothesis stated that the continents were once joined together in a single land mass?

What is the outer most part of the earth?

Which part of the Earth is made up of molten iron and nickel, and has convection currents?

Minerals are __________, meaning no materials were once apart of living things.

Sea-floor spreading occurs at?

What can cause damage days or months after a large earthquake?

Seismic waves carry the energy of an earthquake way from the __________?

Which of the following is not one of the five characteristics defining a mineral?

What is the point on earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus?

When minerals split apart easily along flat surfaces.

A volcano that is not likely to ever erupt again is called?

Which evidence does not support continental drift?

What stress force pushes masses of rock passed each other in opposite directions?

A volcano that is considered "sleeping."  It probably wont erupt again till the distant future.

Which layer of the earth has the greatest amount of pressure?

An erupting, or soon to be erupting, volcano is called?

How were the Hawaiian Islands formed?

What type of crystal is formed beneath the earth?

A quiet eruption typically creates a __________________ volcano.