Rock Cycle
There are _____ different types of rocks.
What is 3?
There are ___ different layers on earth.
What is 4?
There are ____ types of boundaries
What is 3?
The main ingredient in soil.
What is rock (or minerals)?
The three types of rocks.
What are sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous?
The type of rock that forms from cooled magma.
What is igneous rock?
The thickest layer inside the Earth.
What is the mantle?
Divergent boundaries move ______ .
What is AWAY or APART from each other?
The process of large rocks breaking down into smaller rocks.
What is weathering?
You might find this type of rock near a volcano.
What is igneous Rock?
A type of rock that forms from sediments compacted together.
What is sedimentary rock?
The liquid layer inside the Earth.
What is the outer core?
_______ _____ inside the mantle slowly move the tectonic plates.
What are convection currents?
The movement of sediments by water or wind.
What is erosion?
These rocks are found deep inside the Earth
What is metamorphic rock?
A type of rock made by heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
The two layer that are mostly made of iron and nickel.
What are the outer core and the inner core?
Most ______ happen at transform boundaries.
What are earthquakes?
Nutrient rich organic material in soil that contains remains of dead plants and animals.
What is humas?
The melting of metamorphic rock creates ________.
What is magma?
Extrusive and intrusive are both ______ rocks
What is Igneous?
The two types of crust found on Earth
What are continental and oceanic crust?
When an oceanic crust sinks under a continental crust and a volcano slowly forms.
What is subduction (or subduction zone)?
The soil layers containing O, A, B, C and R.
What is a soil horizon?
This rock type has fossils in it.
What is sedimentary rock?