This layer of earth is made up of molten and solid rock
What is the mantle?
100
Earthquakes occur at which type of boundary.
What is sliding, strike-slip, or transform boundary?
100
Fossils usually form in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
100
This type of rock is formed by intense pressure and heat.
What is a metamorphic rock?
100
Scientist rub a rock against a streak plate to test this.
What is color.
200
What is layer at the center of the Earth is made up of solid iron and nickel?
What is the inner core?
200
This happens to pressure and temperature as you move closer to the center of the Earth.
What is increases?
200
These two things are formed when metamorphic rocks melt.
What is magma and lava
200
The continuous changes that rocks undergo.
What is the rock cycle?
200
This is the process that carries sediments away.
What is erosion?
300
crust
What is the thin, outer layer of Earth?
300
The Appalachian Mountain range was formed by plates that moved toward each other. These plates are known as ___.
What are convergent boundaries?
300
This process changes a sedimentary rock into a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
300
Fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas are usually found here.
What is underneath the Earth's crust?
300
This describes how the surface of the rock looks when it reflects light.
What is luster?
400
An extremely hot layer where nickel and iron melt into a thick liquid state is known as _____.
What is the outer core?
400
This causes movement of the plates.
What is heat and energy?
400
Magma and lava form an igneous rock through this process.
Hint: CC
What is cooling and crystallizing?
400
The products of weathering are called this.
What are sediments?
400
Volcanoes form where plates move away from one another at a boundary called ___.
What is a divergent boundary?
500
As you move closer to the center of the Earth, the pressure and temperature does this.
What is increases?
500
The boundaries between plates are known as.
What are faults?
500
The Coastal Plain of Virginia contain fossils of ocean organism. According to scientists, this tells us that the Coastal Plain was once covered by this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
500
Sandstone, shale, and coal are examples of this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
500
Volcanoes form when plates move away from each other in this type of boundary.