Layers of the Earth
Plate Motion
Soil
Rocks
Water Cycle
100
The outer layer of the earth
What is the crust?
100
This is where tectonic plates move apart
What is a divergent boundary?
100
This makes up the main part of soil
What is weathered rock?
100
Rocks made by cooled magma or lava
What are igneous rocks?
100
This provides the energy needed to run the cycle
What is solar energy?
200
A layer made of liquid iron and nickel
What is the outer core?
200
Where tectonic plates slide past each other
What is a transform fault?
200
The top layer of soil with the most nutrients
What is topsoil?
200
The type of rocks made by heat and pressure
What are metamorphic rocks?
200
When liquid water is changed to a gas (water vapor)
What is evaporation?
300
A layer made of melted rock and causes plate motion
What is the mantel?
300
Where tectonic plates collide with each other
What is a convergent fault?
300
The scientific name for soil layers
What are horizons?
300
Weathering, erosion, deposition, pressure and cementation are the processes to make this rock type
What is sedimentary rock?
300
When water falls from the sky to the Earth as rain, snow, sleet or hail
What is precipitation?
400
The solid metal layer that in extremely hot
What is the inner core?
400
These powerful events can often occur at plate boundaries
What are earthquakes?
400
Parent material, topography, climate, biology, and time are considered this
What are the 5 Soil Formation Factors?
400
Visible layers could possibly be found in these rocks
What are sedimentary and metamorphic rocks?
400
When water vapor is cooled, and then changed into a liquid
What is condensation?
500
These layers are responsible for creating Earth's magnetic field
What are the mantel and outer core?
500
The process of an ocean plate sinking below a continental plate at a convergent boundary
What is subduction?
500
The process of rain water dissolving minerals and carrying them deeper into the soil
What is leaching?
500
These are rocks made of minerals that were left behind by evaporated water
What are chemical sedimentary rocks?
500
The process of water soaking into the ground
What is percolation?
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