Rocks & Minerals
The thinnest layer of the Earth
what is the crust
This process happens when lakes and oceans turns into vapor due to heat from the sun.
What is evaporation?
An imprint of a fossil
What is a mold fossil
The first layer of the atmosphere.
The percentage of water that covers the Earth.
What is 71%
The three rock types
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
When water vapor cools and forms clouds , it undergoes this process.
What is condensation?
The law that estimates the age of the rock strata depending on if its higher or lower.
What is the law of superposition
The percentage of nitrogen in the atmosphere.
What is 78%?
Amount of the ocean that has been discovered.
What is 5%
Type of rock that can contain fossils
what is Sedimentary rock
This stage of the water cycle includes rain, snow, hail, and sleet falling to earth.
What is precipitation?
The process of estimating the age of a fossil by the rock strata
What is relative dating
The percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere.
What is 21%?
The term for the amount of salts dissolved in the ocean.
What is salinity?
What type of rock is marble
Water that soaks into the ground and becomes part of the underground reservoris is known by this term.
What is infiltration?
A coiled fossilized shell
What is an ammonite
Fast flowing air current in the upper troposphere that airplanes often use.
What is the jet stream?
The biggest and deepest ocean.
What is the Pacific ocean?
How are extrusive Igneous rocks formed
What is when volcanoes spew magma and cools above the Earth's surface
What is runoff?
What is the mesozoic era
The layer of the atmosphere that burns up meteors.
What is the mesosphere?
Largest living structure in the ocean.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?