Rocks
Earth
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
Volcanoes
100
What rocks are made up of.
What are minerals?
100
The layer of the Earth where rocks and minerals are found?
What is the crust?
100
Sediments binding together to become sediments.
What is compacting and cementing?
100
Magma that reaches the surface of the Earth.
What is lava?
100
Formed by alternating layers of lava and rock fragments.
What is a composite volcano?
200
Molten, liquid rock within the mantle.
What is magma?
200
Is the solid, dense center of our planet.
What is the inner core?
200
Rocks changed by heat and pressure into other rocks.
What is metamorphic rocks?
200
Small bits of rock made through weathering.
What is sediment?
200
Hug in size, built by many layers of runny lava.
What is a shield volcano?
300
Where intrusive igneous rocks form.
What is within the Earth?
300
Where most of the Earth's mass is.
What is the mantle?
300
The continuous process in which rocks changed from one type of rock to another.
What is the Rock Cycle?
300
Bits of rock moved away by water, wind,ice, or gravity.
What is erosion?
300
Steep, conical hill formed above a vent.
What is a cinder cone?
400
Igneous rocks that have small or no crystals.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
400
The part of the Earth that is divided into tectonic plates.
What is the lithosphere?
400
The processes that are included in the rock cycle.
What is cooling, heat and pressure,and melting?
400
A type of rock that is not solid and is found within the mantle.
What is magma?
400
Volcanoes are group based on these.
What is materials built of and the way they erupt?
500
Soil is partially made up of this.
What is sediment or rock particles?
500
The part of the Earth in which tectonic plates are able to move around on.
What is the asthenosphere?
500
three types of rocks used in the rock cycle.
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.
500
The study of the Earth and Earth processes.
What is geology?
500
The process that helps to create volcanoes.
What is uplift?
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