Minerals
This is the hardest mineral.
What is a diamond?
Broken down pieces of rock.
What are sediments?
Name the two types of crust.
What are oceanic and continental?
This type of plate boundary creates no new landforms.
What is transform?
This is the scale used to measure mineral hardness.
What is the Mohs Hardness Scale?
What is an igneous rock?
There are ______ types of seismic waves.
What is 3?
Seafloor spreading occurs at this type of plate boundary.
What is divergent?
What is a mineral?
Rocks formed from the cooling of hot melted rock materials.
What is continental?
A type of plate boundary where one plate is pushed below another plate.
What is convergent?
Silicon and _________ are the most common elements in Earth's crust.
What is oxygen?
Sedimentary rocks are formed by the process of compaction and ____________.
What is cementation?
Name at least 3 layers of the Earth.
crust, mantle, core, lithosphere, asthenosphere
Alfred Wegener noticed that the __________ fit together like a puzzle.
What are the continents?
True or false: A minerals elemental structure is the cause of their hardness?
What is true?
Rocks that have been changed by heat and pressure into a different rock.
What are metamorphic rocks?
What is liquid?
Geologists found evidence that this flips over time.
What are the magnetic poles?