Rocks
This type of rock is formed from layers of sediment that are compacted and cemented together.
What is sedimentary?
Name the 4 layers of the earth.
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
Tectonic plates move slowly along earth's surface due to ________ energy produced inside the earth.
What is thermal energy?
California sits on this type of boundary and has many earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary?
Atmosphere is to air as ________ is to water.
What is the Hydrosphere?
This type of rock is formed by large amounts of heat and pressure inside the earth.
What is metamorphic?
The rocky layer of the earth that we live on is called ________.
What is the crust?
These plates move towards each other or come together.
What is a convergent boundary?
This plate boundary produces underwater volcanoes, mid-ocean mountain ranges, and earthquakes.
What is a divergent boundary?
Biosphere is to organisms as __________ is to solid earth.
What is the Geosphere?
This type of rock is formed when another rock is melted and then cooled.
What is an igneous rock?
This layer is the thickest layer and is made of molten rock called magma.
What is the mantle?
These plates slide past each other horizontally. They are sometimes called strike-slip boundaries.
What is a transform boundary?
This type of boundary produces volcanoes, mountain ranges, and earthquakes.
What is a convergent boundary?
Soil moving down a rushing river is an example of ________.
What is erosion?
The _______ shows how rocks are always changing from one type to another.
What is the rock cycle?
The inner core and outer core are both made of this.
What is iron and nickel?
These plates move apart from each other or divide.
What is a divergent boundary?
Fossils can only be found in this type of rock because of it's layers.
What is sedimentary rock?
The sidewalk cracking apart from tree roots growing under it is an example of ________.
What is weathering?
Scientists use this to identify rocks based on properties that can be observed, tested, and described.
What is a classification key or dichotomous key?
This layer is a solid ball of nickel and iron because of the pressure deep in the earth.
What is the inner core?
Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur on ________.
What is a fault.
This land feature would most likely be formed by weathering.
A mountain or a canyon
What is a canyon?
After sediment is broken down and carried away by wind or water, it piles up in a different place. Piling up in a new place is called ________.
What is deposition?