Vocab
A substance obtained by mining and what rocks are made of.
What is Minerals?
This can be iron and quartz
What is a mineral?
These 2 plates are called
What is tectonic plates?
This makes up sedimentary rock.
Whis is sand, mud, and pebbles.
This vocab term has a tendency to break into irregular pieces.
What is fracture?
This white mineral is found in sand
What is quartz?
The outer layer of earth is called this
What is crust?
This rock forms deep under ground.
What is metamorphic rock
This vocab term means to construce
What is construce?
This is the most common mineral.
What is feldspar?
This surrounds the center of the earth
What is mantle?
These are the 3 types of the rock cycle.
What is igneous, sedimentary, metaphoric.
This vocab term means to break down
What is erosion?
This mineral term means to not be broken down into a simpler substance
What is element?
This is what the center of earth is called
What is core?
This process forms igneous rocks.
What is molten rock cools and hardens.
This vocab term means to crystallize
What is crystallization?
Sedimentary rocks may have distinct layers of sediments known as
What is Strata?
This surrounds the outside of the core
What is outer core?
This brings down but also brings up.
What is erosion.