Layers of the Earth & Rocks
The second layer of Earth (if you are going from the outside to the inside)
What is the Mantle?
The process where rocks are broken apart by environmental factors, such as wind or rain.
What is Weathering?
What is Saskatchewan known for producing?
What is Potash?
Sand
Silt
Clay
A mountain with a crack or vent where gas, rock fragments, ash and lava erupt from below the earth's crust.
What is an Volcano?
This type of rock is formed when the molten rock from the mantle reaches the earth's crust
What is Igneous rock?
The process where soil and rock are moved from one place to another
What is Erosion?
What is a consequence of mining operations?
- Loss of habitats
- Depletion of resources
- relocation of civilizations
What has the largest particle size?
What is Sand?
This type of natural disaster is caused by convergent tectonic plate movement off the coast, under the ocean
What is a Tsunami?
This type of rock is formed when layers of rock and organic material build up and are put under pressure
The process where rock that has been moved due to environmental factors gather in certain areas, causing build up
What is Deposition?
These are the processes scientists use to identify how old rocks and fossils are
What is Carbon Dating and Radiometric Dating?
What soil holds moisture, but also has the ability to properly drain?
What is Silt?
This area is where most of the world's earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis occur and is also a popular Johnny Cash song.
What is the Ring of Fire?
This type of rock is formed under the earth's surface through heat and pressure applied to different rocks?
What is Metamorphic rock?
Name one of the biggest factors in weathering and erosion?
What is Water?
What is Wind?
The type of technology that uses a 'Thumper' or dynamite.
What is Seismic Imaging?
The Ring of Fire is located in which ocean?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Name the three different types of tectonic plate movement and describe what happens in each movement.
Convergent - plates collide
Divergent - plates move away from each other
Transform - plates move against each other in opposite directions
Name a type of erosion
What is cut bank erosion?
- biological
- chemical
- glacial
-aeolian
- sea stack
What are some jobs that are related to mineral extraction?
What is Mining? Geologists? Engineers? Heaving Equipment Operator? Mechanics? Drillers? Mine Managers? Project Coordinators?
What is Loam?
Who is your favorite teacher?
Mrs. Scherr