Weathering, Erosion and Deposition
Rocks and Minerals
Rock Cycle
Earth's Layers
Plate Tectonics
100
The breaking of larger rocks into smaller rocks
What is weathering
100
Rocks are made up of these.
What is minerals
100
This rock is created by pressure and heat.
What is metamorphic rock
100
The three layers of the Earth
What is the crust, mantle and core
100
large pieces of Earth's crust
What is a plate
200
The dropping of eroded sediment in a new place
What is deposition
200
What are the three types of rocks?
What is sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous
200
The process of rocks changing from one kind of rock to another kind of rock over long periods of time.
What is the rock cycle
200
Earth's thickest layer that contains most of Earth's mass
What is the mantle.
200
This movement in the mantle causes plates to move.
What is convection currents
300
This rock type is the most difficult to weather.
What is igneous
300
This is little pieces of rocks, pebbles, mineral grains, and shell fragments that eventually form rocks.
What is sediment
300
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano
300
This layer of earth is made up of molten and solid rock
What is the mantle
300
This is the boundary where plates are moving away from each other.
What is divergent
400
The movement of sediments from one place to another
What is erosion
400
This can cool and harden and form igneous rock.
What is magma or lava
400
Deep beneath the surface, _________________ and pressure can change sedimentary rock to metamorphic rock.
What is temperature
400
The thinnest layer of Earth that is solid and can sustain life.
What is the crust
400
Mountains can be created at this boundary.
What is convergent
500
What is the Law of Superposition?
The position of rock layer tells us relative age. The oldest layer (and oldest fossils) are found at the bottom layer, youngest layers at the top.
500
Fossils are found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary
500
How can metamorphic rock become sedimentary rock?
What is by weathering, erosion and deposition
500
layer that has convection currents
What is the mantle
500
Earthquakes often occur at which type of boundary.
What is transform
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