Earth's
Layers
Layers
The outermost layer of the earth, a pizza and a pie.
What is crust?
Besides gas, two things that crystals can grow from.
What are liquid and solid?
What is weathering?
Liquid rock that is underground.
What is magma?
What sedimentary rocks are made from.
What is sediment (old broken down rocks, minerals, fossils, and sand).
The two forces that cause metamorphic rocks to form.
What are heat and pressure?
The thickest layer of the earth, found below the earth's crust. Also refers to the decorative framework around a fireplace.
What is the mantle?
The shape of crystals is called this. Also a term for an action we do routinely.
What is a habit?
When tiny pieces of rocks are moved via water, wind, gravity, animals or people to a new location.
What is erosion?
Liquid rock that has erupted out of the earth.
What is lava?
Where sedimentary rocks are formed.
What is on the bottom of bodies of water (ocean/lake/river floors)?
Metamorphic rocks were once one of these two types of rock.
What are Igneous and Sedimentary?
The temperature of the layers of rock, soil and minerals in the earth's crust.
What is cool?
Something we write with thanks to mineral graphite.
What is a pencil?
Two forms of water that cause weathering to occur.
What is flowing water and ice?
What is extrusive igneous rock.
Chemicals in the water, and minerals in the sediment act like _____ to make sedimentary rocks stick together.
What is glue?
Metamorphic rocks such as marble are commonly used as building materials because of this quality.
The type of hot rock that extends 150 miles deep inside the earth's mantle.
What is molten.
People often confuse crystals with these precious stones.
What are gemstones?
The name for tiny pieces of rock that have been broken off from larger rocks.
What is sediment?
Where an intrusive igneous rock is found.
What is inside the earth?
What are fossils?
Bands (stripes) of crystals or minerals indicate that a rock is this.
The two names to describe the last two core layers of the earth.
What are inner and outer?
The four qualities used to identify minerals.
What is the difference in the time it takes for weathering to occur, versus erosion?
What is cools?
You can tell a sedimentary rock by its _____, also a name for how we dress when it's cold outside.
What are layers?
The name metamorphic comes from the words meaning “change of shape" in this language. (Hint: we have been studying this culture)
What is Greek?