Earths layers
The outermost layer of Earth
What is the crust?
The process that changes rocks from what type to another
What is the rock cycle
This measures how hot or cold the air is
What is temperature
Earths crust is broken up into large pieces called this......????<3:)
What are tectonic plates
This object provides energy for most life on Earth
What is the Sun
This layer is made of semi-molten rock that lies below the crust
What is the mantle
This rock type forms from cool lava or magma
What is igneous rock
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity
The process that moves plates apart at mid ocean ridges
What is seafloor spreading
Earth rotates on this imaginary line
What is the axis
Earth's innermost layer
What is the inner core
This type of rock is formed from heat and pressure
What is metamorphic rock
The boundary between two different air masses
What is a front
When two plates collide and one goes under the other
What is suduction
The cause of Earth's seasons
What is the tilt of Earth's axis
The lithosphere includes these two layers
What are the crust and upper mantle
This rock is made from compacted sediment
What is sedimentary rock
A spinning storm system that forms over warm ocean water
What is a hurricane
This type of plate boundry causes earth quakes
What is a transform boundary
Earth's natural satelite
What is the Moon
This layer causes tectonic plates to move due to convection currents
What is the asthenosphere
This is the scale using mineral hardness
What is the Mohs hardness scale
Long term weather patterns in a region
What is climate
THE SUPERCONTINENT THAT EXISTED 250 MILLION YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:()
What is Pangaea
This is the layer of gases that surrounds Earth
What is the atmosphere