Earth’s Layers
What is the name of a scientist who studies rocks and Earth’s crust?
What is a geologist?
What word describes a crack in the Earth’s crust?
What is a fault?
What is a giant wave of seawater called?
What is a tsunami?
What is the process where natural forces move rock and soil from one place to another?
What is erosion?
What is molten rock beneath the Earth’s surface called?
What is magma?
What is the innermost layer of the Earth called?
What is the inner core?
What causes an earthquake?
What is the movement of Earth’s plates?
What causes a tsunami?
What is earthquakes on the ocean bottom?
What created the Grand Canyon?
What is water erosion?
What is the process of rocks being created, destroyed, and recreated?
What is the rock cycle?
What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?
What is the crust?
What is the name of the theory that explains the movement of Earth’s plates?
What is Plate Tectonics?
What is an underground hot spring that periodically erupts?
What is a geyser?
What is the breaking of rocks into smaller pieces without changing their composition?
What is physical weathering?
Which type of rock is formed from layers of sediment compressed over time?
What is sedimentary ?
What is the name of the one huge landmass that was on Earth long ago?
What is Pangea?
What instrument tracks seismic waves?
What is a seismograph?
What is an underwater volcano called?
What is a seamount?
What is the process that breaks down rocks by changing the minerals they contain?
What is chemical weathering?
What kind of rock is formed from cooled magma or lava?
What is igneous?
What is it called when one tectonic plate sinks below another?
What is subduction?
What is the name of the scale that measures the intensity of earthquakes?
What is the Richter Scale?
What is a deep sea geyser called?
What is a hydrothermal vent?
Name three things that can cause erosion.
What is wind, flowing water, gravity, or moving ice?
What type of rock forms when existing rock is exposed to extreme heat and pressure?
What is metamorphic?