Layers of the Earth
What is the thickest layer of the Earth?
What is mantle
What type of boundary is it called when plates slide against each other?
What is transform boundary.
What type of rock has large crystals?
What is igneous rock.
What are the least beneficial ways to identify a mineral?
What is color and appearance.
The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock. What is this?
What is a fossil.
Name the layers of the Earth from coolest to hottest.
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
What is caused when two plates slide past each other?
What is Earthquakes.
What is the relation between rocks and minerals?
What is rocks are made of minerals.
What are the characteristics of a mineral?
Solid, inorganic, naturally occuring, and has a definite chemical composition.
What type of rock are fossils found the most in?
What is sedimentary rock.
What is the thinnest layer with large amounts of silicon and aluminum?
What is Earth's crust.
What type of rock is marble?
What is metamorphic.
What is it called when magma rises and sinks in the mantle.
What is a convection current.
How are large crystals formed in volcanic rocks?
What is magma cooling.
Diamonds and coal are both made of carbon. Why is coal not as hard as diamond?
This is because diamond is put under more pressure than coal is.
What is they are formed by different methods.
Name 3 words used to define the luster of a mineral
what is metallic, nonmetallic, dull, pearly, earthy