molten rock beneath Earth's surface
What is magma?
The youngest layer
What is layer A?
Earth's rocky, outer layer
What is the crust?
The supercontinent which can be put together using fossils, rock formations, and the fact that current continental coastlines match up
What is pangea?
Turning a rock into sediment
What is weathering?
the preserved remains of a living thing
What is a fossil?
The youngest layer.
What is layer F?
A slowly-moving solid layer
What is the mantle?
Causes Earthquakes when two plates rub past each other
What is a transform boundary?
Rocks transformed from other rocks by heat and pressure
What is a metamorphic rock?
What is a transform boundary?
The layers in order from youngest to oldest
What are H, R, M, F, B, I?
The denser of Earth's two types of crust
What is oceanic crust?
Provides a mechanism for continental drift
What is seafloor spreading?
Rocks created when lava or magma cools
What is an igneous rock?
These are found all over the world and existed for only a (geologically) short period of time.
What are index fossils?
The oldest fossil.
What is a trilobite?
It is extremely hot, extremely dense, and solid
What is the inner core?
This happens where plates converge. Causes old crust to be recycled, and can cause volcanoes
What is subduction?
Rocks made from sediments compacted and cemented over time. May contain fossils.
What is a sedimentary rock?
States that any feature that is cut through is older than the feature that does the cutting through
What is the law of crosscutting relations?
The oldest rock layer
What is layer E?
Plasticky layer on which the lithosphere sits
What is the asthenosphere?
Plate margins are places where much activity occurs. Volcanoes happen at this type of boundary
What is a convergent boundary where one plate is subducted beneath another.
How long it can take for a rock to metamorphise
millions of years