Composition Of The Earth
Geological Processes
Water
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100
This layer of the Earth is a hot liquid.
What is outer core?
100
Fossils help scientists _______ a layer of rock.
What is date?
100
THese are the four main types of precipitation.
What is rain, sleet, hail, and snow?
100
This is the breaking down of rock particles by force.
What is physical weathering?
100
This type of rock is made of different layers of rock stacking on top of each other for many, many years.
What is sedimentary rocks?
200
The density of the mantle ________ the closer you get to the core.
What is increases?
200
What raw material is igneous rock formed from?
What is magma and/or lava?
200
This is formed when water condenses.
What is a cloud?
200
This layer contains most of the Earth's mass.
What is the mantle?
200
This type of weathering occurs when a chemical reaction breaks down rocks.
What is chemical weathering?
300
This element is in the crust and/or mantle.
What is silicon?
300
Sedimentary rock is formed from the raw material _________.
What is sediment?
300
This is the journey water takes.
What is the water cycle?
300
This force causes landslides.
What is gravity?
300
This process creates soil from rocks.
What is weathering?
400
This layer contains most of the Earth's mass.
What is mantle?
400
The size of the crystals in igneous rock is determined by the rate the rock _________.
What is cools?
400
This is why most of Earth's fresh water is said to be unusable.
What is they are locked in ice caps and glaciers?
400
The Grand Canyon was caused by these two things.
What is weathering and erosion?
400
Volcanoes and earthquakes cause these.
What is tsunamis?
500
This layer is where diamonds form.
What is mantle?
500
These are responsible for the movement of plates.
What are convection currents?
500
How much of Earth's water is in streams, rivers, and lakes?
What is .3%?
500
Volcanoes create these.
What is islands?
500
Sedimentary rocks can be changed directly into these kind of rocks with the application of heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
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