Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Earth Structure
Fossils
100
This is the definition of "igneous"
What is "born of fire"?
100
This is the small to fine particles that make up this type of rock.
What is sediment?
100
This is the meaning of metamorphic.
What is "to change"?
100
This is the layer that is made up of "floating" plates.
What is the crust?
100
This is what makes chalk.
What are sea shells?
200
This type of igneous rock looks like glass.
What is obsidian?
200
This is type of weathering erodes rock by acids.
What is chemical erosion?
200
These are the two applications that cause the change.
What are heat and pressure?
200
This is the type of volcano that is the most violent of them all.
What are strato-volcanos?
200
These are traces of plants and animals, which help scientists form a picture of Earth's past.
What are fossils?
300
This type of igneous rock makes up most of the continental crust and is the motto for a neighboring state.
What is granite?
300
These are the four processes for making sedimentary rocks.
What are weathering, transportation, deposition, and cementation?
300
This is what we call the rock before it is changed.
What is the parent rock?
300
This is the layer that is mostly made of "liquified" rock.
What is the mantle?
300
These are fossilized trees found in Arizona.
What is the Petrified Forest.
400
This type of igneous rock forms when magma cools on the Earth's surface.
What is extrusive?
400
These are two sizes of sediment.
What boulders, stones, pebbles, sand, and silt?
400
This type of rock has bands of minerals.
What are foliated rocks?
400
This is the zone where one plate rides over another.
What is the subduction zone?
400
This Mesozoic Era rock contained many fossils of reptilian creatures and spawned a popular movie of the 1990's.
What is the Jurassic Period?
500
This is the area on the Earth that contains the majority of volcanos and has the most earthquakes.
What is "the ring of fire"?
500
This is a type of weathering that occurs when rocks break down due to gravity.
What is mechanical weathering?
500
This is a metamorphic rock popularly used to make statues.
What is marble?
500
This is the location where "new" land is created.
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
500
Alfred Wegener proposed a theory, in the early 1900's, that the continents started as on "super continent".
What is Pangaea?
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