Earth's Layers
Maps
Volcanoes & Earthquakes
Rocks
General
100
The densest and hottest layer of the Earth made mostly of iron.
What is the inner core?
100
This type of map shows the elevation above sea level.
What is a topographic map?
100
The name for magma once it has come out of the earth.
What is lava?
100
What you get when rocks are weathered or eroded.
What is sediment?
100
The building blocks of rocks.
What are minerals?
200
The layer of the Earth that contains convection currents of magma.
What is the mantle?
200
These lines show how far east or west you are on the planet.
What is lines of longitude?
200
The type of boundary where you are most likely to find a volcano.
What is convergent boundary?
200
A rock formed by cooling lava or magma.
What is an igneous rock?
200
A test for identifying minerals during which you observe the color of powder a mineral produces on a porcelain plate.
What is a streak test?
300
The thinnest and coolest layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
300
These lines show how far north or south you are on the planet.
What is lines of latitude?
300
The place below the Earth's surface where an earthquake begins.
What is the focus?
300
A rock formed by the cementation of eroded rocks.
What is a sedimentary rock?
300
Can be either metallic or nonmetallic.
What is luster?
400
The only liquid layer of the Earth.
What is outer core?
400
The zero line of latitude.
What is the equator?
400
The machine used to measure the strength of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
400
Formed when extreme pressure and heat is applied to other types of rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
400
The distance between two lines on a contour map.
What is the contour interval?
500
The upper mantle and the Earth's crust fused together are called this.
What is the lithosphere?
500
The zero line of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
One of the two scales used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale or the Mercalli scale?
500
Describes how rocks can change form due to pressure, heat, weathering, erosion and cooling.
What is the rock cycle?
500
The most common type of rock in which you will find fossils.
What is sedimentary rock?
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