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Miscellaneous
100
This layer of earth is made up of molten and solid rock
What is the mantle?
100
The process which causes liquid rock to move
What is convection? Or what are convection currents?
100
Fossils usually form in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
100
This type of rock is formed by intense pressure and heat.
What is a metamorphic rock?
100
What the upper layer of the mantle and the crust is called
What is the lithosphere?
200
What 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
What is the thin, outer layer of Earth?
Crust
300
The type of crust formed of basalt; a dense igneous rock
What is Oceanic crust?
300
This process changes a sedimentary rock into a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
300
Name of magma thrust onto the Earth's surface
What is lava?
300
The thickest layer of the earth; made of liquid rocks
What is the mantle?
400
An extremely hot layer where nickel and iron melt into a thick liquid state is known as _____.
What is the outer core?
400
The type of crust formed of granite; a lower density rock
What is Continental crust?
400
Type of rock formed when molten magma or lava solidifies
What is igneous rock?
400
The products of weathering are called this.
What are sediments?
400
Volcanoes help form what type of rock?
How are Igneous rocks formed?
500
As you move closer to the center of the Earth, the pressure and temperature does this.
What is increases?
500
The faults between plates are known as.
What are boundaries?
500
Sediments have been pressed together to form this type of rock
What is sedimentary rock?
500
Type of rock formed by volcanoes
What are igneous rock?
500
The two things that increase as you get closer to Earth's core
What are heat and pressure?
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