Earth's Layers
A mixture of gases that surround Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Broken up pieces of rock
What are sediments?
Name 2 kinds of crust.
What are oceanic plates and continental plates?
Layer of liquid iron and nickel.
What is the outer core?
Contains all of Earth's water.
What is the hyrdrosphere?
Made from cooled and hardened magma/lava
What is igneous rock?
What is the process of turning Granite (Igneous) into Gniess (Metamorphic)?
Heat and Pressure
Name the Earth's Spheres
What are Biosphere, Geosphere, Hydrosphere, and Atmosphere
Made from compaction and cementation of sediments
What is sedimentary rock?
Weathering and erosion break down rocks into_________.
Plant root breaking through a rock.
What is an interaction between the biosphere and geosphere?
Made from extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
What sphere is Lava part of?
Geosphere
The part of the core that is solid and probably made up of iron and nickel
What is the inner core?
What is an interaction between biosphere and hydrosphere?
Limestone is a type of _______rock.
Sedimentary
Describe how a sedimentary rock can turn into a metaphoric rock
heat and pressure