Layers of the Earths
What is the thickest layer.
Mantle
What are rocks made of.
Minerals.
What processes will change a sedimentary rock into a sedimment.
Weathering and Erosion.
What is the thinnest layer of the earth.
Crust.
Which is NOT a an example of a minerals.
Answers: Iron, steel, water, gold.
Water
Plate tectonics describes movements mainly in which layer of the earths surface.
Earth's crust.
_____ is know as the way light reflects off of a mineral.
Luster
Which is NOT one of the 3 typs of rocks.
Answers: Igneous, Granite, Sedimentary, Metamorphic.
Granite.
What is the layers of the earth in order.
Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core.
What are 3 out of the 5 physical properties that can be used to recognize between minerals.
Solid, inorganic, naturally occuring.
What dose the rock became when subjected to high amounts of heat and pressure.
Metamorphic.
Which layer of the earth has the greatest pressure, density, and temperture.
Inner core.
what are the physical properties that can be used to recognize and distinguish between minerals.
example: coler and fracture.
Color, hardness, luster, appearance, streak, cleavage and fracture.
What processes will change a sedimantary rock into a igneous rock.
Melting, cooling, solidify, crystallization.