Earth
Rocks
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
Plate Tectonics
100
Is the layer where rocks and minerals are found.
What is the crust
100
Is what rocks are made of.
What is minerals?
100
Is the breaking of rocks into sediments.
What is weathering?
100
Is magma released from a volcano.
What is lava?
100
Is what Alfred Wegener called the large super-continent that once existed.
What is Pangea?
200
Is the solid,dense center of our planet.
What is the inner core?
200
Is what determines how rocks are classified?
What is by their formation?
200
Sediments binding together to become rocks.
What is compacting and cementing?
200
Is the boundary that created the Andes Mountains.
What is a convergent boundary?
200
Is evidence used by scientists to prove that the continents were once one huge super-continent.
What is fossils?
300
Is where magma can be found.
What is the mantle.
300
Is where intrusive igneous rock forms.
What is within the earth?
300
Rocks changed by heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
Creates mid-ocean ridges.
What is a divergent boundary?
300
Is why mountains form in some places and not in others.
What is because of plate boundaries?
400
Is the part of the Earth that is divided into plates.
What is the lithosphere?
400
Is one of the three classifications of rock that forms from melting and cooling.
What is igneous rock?
400
Is how igneous rocks are formed.
What is by hot magma rising and then cooling?
400
Is the continuous process in which rocks change from one form to another.
What is the Rock Cycle?
400
Is the boundary that causes earthquakes.
What is transform boundaries?
500
Is the part of the Earth that allows the tectonic plates to move around on.
What is the asthenosphere?
500
Igneous rocks with small or no crystalls.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
500
Is how sedimentary rocks are formed.
What is by the weathering and erosion of rocks?
500
Is igneous rock that forms within the earth and has large crystals.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
500
Is the boundary that creates new ocean floor.
What is a divergent boundary?
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