Layers of the Earth
This layer of the earth is made of granite and basalt
What is the crust
This type of rock is made of cooled off molten rock
What is metamorphic rock
This type of heat is the transfer of heat through space
What is radiation
This type of mining is digging straight down from the surface
What is open pit mining
This tectonic plate covers north america
What is the north American plate
This layer of the earth is solid nickel and iron
What is the inner core
This rock is made of the remains of plants or animals
What is sedimentary rock
This type of heat transfer Is the transfer of heat through a liquid
What is convection
This type of mining is non visible from the surface, its underground
what is underground mining
These plates make earthquakes
What are fault lines
This layer of the earth is hot solid rock
What is the mantle
This type of rock is made from heat and pressure
What is igneous rock
This type of heat transfer is the transfer of heat through the touch
What is conduction
This type of mining destroys mountains
What is mountaintop removal
This big plate covers the carribean
what is the Caribbean plate
This layer of the earth is made of molten mental
What is the outer core
Obsidian is what type of rock
what is metamorphic rock
This type of heat transfer happens in the mantle
What is convection currents
This type of mining is in strips
What is strip mining
This plate covers Europe and Asia
what is the Eurasian plate
This part of the mantle is a tar like substance that moves with convection currents
what is the asthenosphere
Fossils implanted into rocks are what type of rock?
What is sedimentary rocks
This heat transfer comes from the sun
What is radiation
This type of mining is on the surface
What is surface mining
This plate covers right below Chile and argentina
what is the scotia plate