Top 10 Missed Qs: Exam 1

What controls the properties of a mineral/how are minerals classified?

• anion

What area would you go to find an example of area D (oceanic crust subducting under continental crust)

• andes mts

Volcanoes are expected at what plate boundary?

• ocean-ocean collision (think about islands and hawaii)

  • would be ocean-something

What plate boundary forms the most intense, deep earthquakes?

• convergent (oceanic subduction slab could go all the way down to the mantle - 350 miles down)

At subduction zones, earthquakes are ____.

• large range in depths and magnitude

The heat flow of Earth is explained by ____.

• conduction and convection (have to have both, core to mantle to crust)

A positively charged ion is called a(n) _____.

• cation

What happened to the early atmosphere of the rocky planets?

• was burnt off by solar winds, comets hitting

What plate boundary forms the eastern edge of the North American plate?

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge (East)

• San Andreas Fault (West)

The largest volume of magmatism occurs at which plate boundary?

• divergent (has eruptions that are underwater so we can’t see it)

• convergent (mountains we see on land)