Rock Cycle
Rocks that form when magma or lava cools and hardens and becomes solid.
What is Igneous Rock?
The outermost solid layer of the Earth.
What is The Earth's Crust?
Which event most likely takes place as the result of crustal movement along a transform boundary?
What is an earthquake?
_________ is the movement of sediment from one place to another.
What is weathering?
The movement of ocean water that occurs at the surface and is caused by wind.
What is a wave?
Rocks that form when sediment from older rocks get pressed and cemented together.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
An area of Earth that extends from below the mantle to the center of the Earth.
What is The Earth's Core?
A boundary at which two plates move past each other or slide by each other?
What is a Transform Boundary?
_____________ is the breaking down of rock.
What is Weathering?
The rise and fall of sea level caused by the moon and the earth's gravitational pull is called?
What is a tide?
The process that forms sedimentary rock is.....
What is weathering, erosion, and deposition.
An area of Earth that is located between the core and crust.
What is The Earth's Mantle?
A boundary where two plates move away from each other.
What is a Divergent Boundary?
____________ is the dropping or building up of sediment.
What is deposition?
The movement of the ocean that is caused by differences in temperature and salinity is.
What is a current?
This type of rock is formed from heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic.
The innermost layer of the earth?
What is most likely the result of convergent boundary movement?
What is mountains, volcanoes, and and earthquakes?
The type of rock that is formed from weathering, erosion, and deposition.
What is a sedimentary rock?
The bottom of the food web in an ocean that feeds off the sun is?
What is phytoplankton?
What type of rock contains fossils like shells?
What is Sedimentary Rock?
The layer between the inner core and mantle is..
What is The Inner core?
What is an effect of divergent boundary movement between two oceanic plates?
What is new oceanic crust?
Planting grass near a body of water can help ______
What is slow down erosion and create more habitats for animals?
What was the independent variable in your salinity experiment?
What is the amount of salt?