Earth's Interior
The Earth's outermost layer.
What is the crust?
Minerals are made of these.
What are crystals?
Rocks are made up of these.
What are minerals?
The three main types of rocks in the rock cycle
What are igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic
The layer beneath the Earth's crust.
What is the mantle?
Name two properties of minerals.
What are color, luster, streak, hardness, density, cleavage or structure? (Name at least 2)
Name the three main types of rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
Sedimentary rocks are formed by this.
What is sediment?
This is found in the Earth's mantle.
What is magma?
Name two of the possible characteristics of a mineral.
What are naturally occurring, solid, formed by inorganic processes, crystal structure, and definite chemical composition? (Say at least 2)
Extrusive and intrusive are two types of this.
What are igneous rocks?
Rocks that form by heat, pressure, or chemical change.
What are metamorphic rocks.
A dense ball of solid metal.
What is the inner core?
A stable environment forms this.
What is large crystals?
Weathering and erosion, transportation, deposition, compaction and cementation
What is the process of sedimentary rock formation?
The process responsible for changing igneous rocks into sedimentary rocks.
What is weathering and erosion?
Two methods scientists use to study Earth's interior.
What are direct and indirect evidence?
The two ways minerals are formed.
What is water evaporation or from magma/lava cooling.
Heat from the sun and from the Earth's interior is the energy source that drives this.
What is rock formation?
Idea that Earth's rock get recycled.
What is the rock cycle?