Layers of the Earth
What layer of the earth do we live on?
Crust
When continental plates collide it creates....?
Mountains
What is Weathering?
Breaking down of rock
What are the three types of Rock?
Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
Igneous can become metamorphic when you add....?
Heat and Pressure
What is the largest layer of the earth?
Mantle
When Oceanic plates divide it creates....?
Ocean Ridge
When rock is weathered it breaks into what?
Sediments
Which rock is formed from cooled lava or magma?
Igneous
Metamorphic can be become igneous when....?
It melts and cools
Which part of the core is liquid?
Outer Core
What happens at a Transform Boundary?
1. Plates slide together
2. Pressure builds up
3. Earth Quake
Sediments settle/lay down somewhere new
Which rock is formed from high heat and extreme pressure?
Metamorphic
Igneous can become sedimentary after.....?
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
The inner core is a solid ball of....?
Iron and Nickel
When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide it causes what 2 things?
Ocean Trench
Volcano
What is Erosion?
Which rock is created from deposition of sediments?
Sedimentary
Sedimentary can become Metamorphic if you add....?
Heat and Pressure
The crust is made up of puzzle pieces called...?
Tectonic Plates
What are the 3 boundary types?
Describe how the plates move at each boundary
1. Convergent- Collides
2. Divergent- Divides
3. Transform- Slides
How are beaches created? Use Erosion, and Deposition to explain.
Waves move sand from the bottom of the ocean (Erosion) and laid it on the shore (Deposition).
The crystals size in an Igneous rock are determined by....?
How fast it cools.
What can be found in Sedimentary rocks?
Why?
Fossils
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