Rocks
What type of rock is made of sediment?
Sedimentary
What is the third layer of the Earth?
Outer Core
Which layer of soil is best for plant roots to grow in?
Topsoil
What is one way tectonic plates move that causes an earthquake?
Bonus: name another way
5
What type of rock is made using heat and pressure?
Metamorphic
True or False: the Inner Core is made of liquid molten magma.
False
Humus
What do you call the exact place where an earthquake happens?
Focus
What is magma called once it reaches the surface of the Earth?
Lava
What type of rock is made from magma or lava cooling and hardening?
Igneous
What layer of the Earth would you find soil in?
The Crust
What layer is below the topsoil layer?
Subsoil
What do you call the place on the surface of the earth directly above the focus?
Epicenter
What is the name of the supercontinent named by Alfred Wegener?
Pangaea
What is the most common type of rock?
Bonus: list at least three examples of this rock
Igneous
Bonus: Obsidian, basalt, granite, and pumice
Which is the hottest layer of the Earth?
Inner Core
Which layer of soil would you most likely find worms, moles, and groundhogs living in?
Topsoil
Richter or Mercalli Scale
Which two types of tectonic plate movement cause mountains to form, volcanoes to erupt, and earthquakes to happen?
Sediment is made up of __________ and minerals?
Rocks
What do you call crust that is found under the large bodies of water on Earth?
Oceanic Crust
What do you call a mixture of rocks, sediment, and organic matter?
What is the name of the instrument seismologists use to measure the strength of an earthquake?
Seismograph
How many types of volcanoes are there?
Bonus: list the types of volcanoes
3
Bonus: active, dormant, and extinct