Rocks
ROCK CYCLE
This landform is made generally when plates collide
Mountains
True or False: The earth's plates are moving and shifting and changing.
TRUE
TRUE or FALSE there are only Continental tectonic plates, no plates in the ocean.
A rock is living or non living
non-living
What cools or hardens to create igneous rocks?
MAGMA/LAVA
A crack in earth's crust is called a fault? hotspot? or geyser?
Fault
What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?
Crust
Name a creature that lives near a hydrothermal vent
Blind Shrimp
Giant Tube Worm
White Crab
football sized clams
The breaking down of rocks by forces of nature like wind, water, and critters is called what?
Weathering
What are the three categories or classes of rocks?
Sedimentary, Metamorphic, and Igneous
a hot spring that periodically erupts and shoots steam and hot water into the air is called what?
Old Faithful is an example of this
A geyser
The three ways that plates can move are:
Collide, Separate, Slide
(Subduction is ok for type of slide/collision)
Where on tectonic plates do most earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes occur?
Along plate boundaries and hotspots
Put the earth layers in order from top to deepest part.
Inner Core, Outer Core, Crust, Mantle
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
Little bits and pieces of minerals, rocks- we call sediments, and other living things can be compacted together to form this type of rock, what is it?
Sedimentary
made of sediments
This type of mountain is made when magma bulges up into the earth's surface like a blister
Fault-block? Dome? or Fold?
Dome
True or False: Finding fossils and rocks of the SAME kind in DIFFERENT places helped provide evidence that Earth's layout had changed
TRUE
Hydro-thermal means what?
When sediments are MOVED and deposited somewhere else we call this what?
Erosion
This word means change but it also is the name of a class of rock?
Metamorphic
The study of the makeup of the earth and the processes that change and shape it is called?
Geology
Who was the researcher that studied the Continental Drift?
Initials: A W
Alfred Wegener
What is the deepest part of the ocean?
Mariana Trench (Challenger Deep)
Name one FOLD mountain example
Himalayas
Alps
Urals
Appalachians
Andes