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It is the outer most layer of the Earth.
What is the crust.
This is the layer just beneath the surface of the Earth.
What is the Mantle.
It is the layer that is on the outside of the inner core of the Earth.
What is the outer core.
What is the inner core.
It is the layer of the Earth that contains the oceanic crust and the continental crust.
What is the crust.
It is type of rock the Sandia Mountains are made up of...
What is granite and limestone.
Pumice is this category of one of the three main rock categories.
What is igneous rock.
Sediment is created by this method.
What is weathering, wind, rain, tiny animals, erosion.
When a volcano is irrupting the melted rock inside the volcano is called this...
What is magma.
What is lava.
What is worn down tiny pieces of rock.
What is squeezed and cemented together.
This is how metamorphic rock is formed.
What is heat and incredible pressure.
This is how magma is formed.
What is melted metamorphic rock.
Pyrite and Quartz is made up of this...
What is one type of mineral.
It is the layer just beneath the crust that contains liquid hot rock that flows in a circular convection motion.
What is the mantle.
It is the layer of the Earth that contains solid metal.
What is the Earth's core.
What is convection.
These are the three main types of rocks.
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
It is how igneous rock is formed.
What is cooling magma.
It is the two types of evidence that scientist use to learn about the Earth's interior.
What is direct and indirect evidence.
Geologist what examine rock samples, and rocks drilled from inside the Earth uses this type of evidence.
What is direct evidence.
When scientist use seismic waves to study the Earth's interior they are using this kind of evidence.
What is indirect evidence.
This is the transfer of energy through empty space.
What is radiation.
What is conduction.