Rock and Minerals
The type of rock that forms from the cooling and solidification of molten lava or magma.
What is an igneous rock?
The Earth's outermost layer.
What is the crust?
The molten rock beneath the Earth's crust.
What is magma?
The thinnest layer of the Earth, consisting of solid rock.
What is the crust?
The type of rock that is formed from the compression and cementation of sediment particles.
What is a sedimentary rock?
The type of plate boundary do plates move apart from each other.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
The cause of earthquakes.
What is the collision of Earth's tectonic plates?
The layer of the Earth that consists of semi-liquid rock that flows slowly.
What is the mantle?
A type of igneous rock that forms from the fast cooling of lava.
What is obsidian?
The type of boundary occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally.
What is a transform plate boundary?
The scale that the power of earthquakes are measured in.
What is the Richter Scale?
The name given to the combined crust and upper mantle layers of the Earth.
What is the lithosphere?
Diamond.
What is the hardest naturally occurring mineral?
The tectonic boundary is responsible for the formation of mountain ranges?
What is a convergent plate boundary?
The type of boundary that creates a strato-volcano.
What is subduction?
The two metals that make up the core of the Earth.
What are nickel and iron?
The entire process that changes living organisms into fossils.
The visible evidence that continental drift occurs.
What is the complimentary shape of the continents?
The type of volcano is characterized by its gentle, sloping sides and non-explosive eruptions?
What is a shield volcano?
The layer of the Earth consisting of iron and nickel, but in a liquid state.
What is the outer core?