A layer of Earth partly made up of crust and mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
100
Geologists have studied these two things to determine what Earth's interior layers is composed of.
What are the speed and path of seismic waves as they travel the Earth.
100
Processes that affect the rock cycle
weather and erosion
deposition
heat and pressure
melting
volcanic activity
100
Three types of heat transfer. One heat transfer is from the movement of fluid. The next is from materials touching. The last is from the transfer of energy through waves.
What are convection, conduction, and radiation
200
The metamorphic rock slate is used for floors and outdoor walkways because slate:
splits easily into flat pieces.
200
The layer of earth that is expected to have the greatest pressure.
What is the inner core?
200
Series of processes on Earth's surface and in the crust and mantle that slowly change rocks from one kind to another
What the rock cycle
200
Heat transfer in the Earth uses a specific type of heat transfer, and it's flow. What are these?
What is convection and convection current?
300
Metamorphic rocks can form from what other type of rock?
Igneous and Sedimentary
300
The asthenosphere is part of this layer of Earth.
What is the mantle?
300
The order of Earth's layers:
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core
300
This is how sediment forms
What is erosion?
300
Convection currents in the Earth's mantle and core cause hot magma to become which of these: less dense or more dense?
Cool magma becomes: less dense or more dense?
Hot: less
Cool: more
400
Statement that best describes how an igneous rock forms:
Magma cools quickly on Earth's surface.
400
The rock that is made from heat and pressure
What is a metamorphic rock
400
How can you benefit from using different colored clay to represent each of Earth's layers in a model?
Could easily show the relative thickness of Earth's layers.
400
What is the end of the rock cycle?
None
400
This changes as magma is heated and cooled?
density.
500
What two processes are required for sedimentary rock formation?