Earth's Structure
Changing Earth
Rocks and Minerals
Vocabulary
What's the Word?
100
Earth's outer layer
What is the crust
100
What natural processes change Earth's surface?
What is weathering and erosion
100
How are rocks classified?
What is by how they are formed
100
Solid rock that makes up Earth's outermost layer
What is the crust
100
The center of Earth
What is the core
200
What can the crust be covered by?
What is soil,water,sand,glaciers
200
What causes beaches to change?
What is erosion
200
Rocks change in a process called what
What is the rock cycle
200
A large mass of snow and ice that slowly moves downward and outward over the land.
What is a glacier
200
A crack in Earth's crust that shows evidence of motion
What is a fault
300
What is the Earth's nickname?
What is The Blue Planet
300
Fire-made rock formed from melted rock material
What is igneous rock
300
What can change igneous and sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks?
What is heat and pressure
300
The layer of rock below Earth's surface
What is the mantle
300
Hot, molten rock below Earth's surface
What is magma
400
About how much of Earth's surface is covered by water?
What is 70%
400
Evidence of an organism that lived in the past
What is a fossil
400
What do minerals have that helps us identify them?
What are properties
400
What do you call the carrying away of soil and rock particles by water, wind, or glaciers?
What is erosion
400
All rocks are made of what?
What are minerals
500
What natural disaster tells us about the inside of Earth?
What is an Earthquake
500
What are the three types of rocks?
What is igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary
500
What are some rare and valuable minerals called?
What are gems
500
Name three properties
What are luster, streak, and hardness
500
The color of the powder left when a mineral is rubbed against a hard, rough surface is a?
What is a streak
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