True or False: Plates move toward each other, away from each other, or past each other
What is true
100
How many categories of rocks are there?
What is 3
200
The outer layer of the Earth
What is the crust
200
This rock is formed when rocks turn into new types of rock
What is metamorphic rock
200
This flows or erupts from volcanoes
What is lava
200
True or False: When plates collide, they form rivers
What is false
200
Rocks may be changed by what two things?
What is heat and pressure.
300
The largest layer of Earth
What is the mantle
300
This type of rock usually forms in layers
What is sedimentary rock
300
Name three types of mountains
What is a domed-shaped mountain, a fold mountain, and a fault-block mountain.
300
A fault is where two ___________ meet
What is plates
300
True or False: Basalt is made when lava pours onto the ground or onto the ocean floor
What is true
400
The type of energy that is from inside Earth
What is geothermal energy
400
Igneous rocks form when hot liquid rock _______
What is cools and hardens
400
Mountains can be formed in the following way -
What is when the plates of Earth move. Two plates can push against each other to form a mountain, or plates can collide head-on, or one plate can force another plate down underneath it to form a mountain.
400
About how many plates make up Earth's crust?
What is 20
400
This rock can be burned for fuel
What is coal
500
Earth is made of rocks and rocks are made up of, what
What is minerals
500
This rock is so light that it floats
What is pumice
500
The opening of a volcano is called the ______
What is the vent
500
Explain how plates work and how they cause natural disasters
What is plates move, shift, and rub against one another. During this time, it upsets Earth's crust, whether on land or in the sea, and it causes disturbances that affects water, weather, and land. Therefore causing, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.
500
Name just 2 of the ways that rocks and minerals can be identified?