Layers of the Earth
What is the name of the outermost layer of the Earth
What is The Crust
What is Talc
What process changes sediment into sedimentary rock?
What is Compaction and cementation
What are tectonic plates?
What is large slabs of rock that make up Earth's crust and move slowly.
What is a fossil?
What is a preserved remains or trace of a once-living organism, usually found in sedimentary rock.
Which layer is made of liquid metal?
What is The Outer Core
What is the name of the test that shows the colour of a mineral's powder?
What process changes any rock into magma?
What is Melting
What is the name of the supercontinent Alfred Wegener proposed?
What is Pangaea
Which fossil layer is the oldest?
What is the Bottom Layer
What is the difference between the mantle and the crust?
The mantle is thicker and made of partly melted rock; the crust is thin and solid.
Which rock type is formed when magma cools and solidifies?
What is Igneous rock
What causes metamorphic rocks to form?
What is Heat and Pressure
Which type of boundary creates Mid-Atlantic Ridges?
What is Divergent Boundary
What are strata?
What is layers of sedimentary rock that show different time periods
Who discovered the Earth's inner core?
What is Inge Lehmann
Which type of rock often forms in layers and may contain fossils?
What is Sedimentary rock
Name the 3 types (classes) of rocks.
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
What type of mountains form when plates push together and fold the crust?
What is Folded Mountains
What are the scientists called that study fossils?
what is Paleontologists
What causes the movement of tectonic plates beneath the Earth's crust?
What is convection currents in the mantle caused by the heating and cooling of molten rock.
What are the 5 properties used to identify minerals?
What is colour, lustre, streak, cleavage/fracture, hardness
Explain how an igneous rock can become a sedimentary rock.
What is Weathering and erosion -> Sediment -> Compaction/cementation -> sedimentary rock
What is matching fossils, landforms, and climate clues (like glacier marks)
What Period occred during the Mesozoic Era?
What is Jurassic (or Triassic, or Cretacerous)