PLATE TECTONICS
The names of the four layers of the earth, starting with the centermost layer and working out.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle and crust
The reason it is called the rock cycle.
What is it has no stopping point, it does not end.
Rock are made up of these.
What are minerals?
This is the biggest energy source used in Indiana.
What is coal?
This layer of is responsible for Earth's magnetic field.
What is the outer core.
What causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents
___________ and ___________ are common factors of metamorphism.
What are extreme heat and pressure?
What are the three types of rocks?
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
This is the one renewable resources that is NOT suitable for Indiana in the future.
What is hydroelectric power.
Continental crust is less dense, thicker, and primarily granite.
Oceanic crust is more dense, thinner, and primarily basalt.
The Appalachian and Himalayan Mountains were formed by which specific type of boundary?
What is a continental-continental convergent boundary.
List the 5 steps to create sedimentary rock in order.
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation.
Igneous rocks have crystals. What determines the size of the crystals?
What is the time it takes for the molten material to cool.
List the 5 renewable energy sources.
What is hydroelectric, solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal?
This layer is made up of the lower portion of the crust and the upper portion of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
This is created when a oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.
What is a subduction zone.
Explain why rock can be transformed into any other type of rock.
The type of rock created it determined by the processes.
Which type of rock can be foliated AND what does it mean to be foliated?
Metamorphic and foliated means the rock displays its grains in stripes or bands.
Explain in detail how a synthetic is created.
Natural resources undergo a chemical change where molecules are rearranged.
How do scientists determine when a layer starts and stops?
The composition has changed. (The material the layer is made of changes)
List the main pieces of evidence Alfred Wegener used to prove his theory. Need 3 to earn the points.
What is fossil records, coastal shapes, landforms.
Explain why some rocks do not travel in a complete cycle and get stuck in a "loop"
A rock can only change due to the processed impacting it, not all processes happen everywhere?
List all defining characteristics of minerals. (hint: there are 8)
What is streak, luster, cleavage, fracture, density, color, hardness, crystal structure.
Explain why biomass could be the future energy source for Indiana.
Indiana is an agricultural state with all the materials needed for biomass to be sufficient.
Identify the main two elements in each of the Earth layers
Crust: Silicon and Oxygen
Mantle: Magnesium and Nickel
Core: Iron and Nickel