Lithosphere
Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer Core, Inner Core
What are the physical (mechanical) characteristics of Earth’s layers?
Core, mantle, crust
What are the chemical (compositional) characteristics of Earth’s layers?
Massive, irregular shaped slab of continental and oceanic lithosphere
What is a tectonic plate?
African plate, Eurasian plate, North American plate, South American plate, Indo-Australian plate, Antarctic plate, Pacific Plate
What are the major tectonic plates of Earth?
Convergent, divergent, and transform movements
What kind of motion or interaction occurs between tectonic plates?
Mountains, volcanoes, trenches
What geological events are caused by convergent boundaries?
Rift, sea-floor spreading
What geological events are caused by divergent boundaries?
Earthquakes
What geological events are caused by transform boundaries?
Pure substances found in nature that always contains the same elements and has a crystal structure
What is a mineral?
Color, Luster, Hardness, Streak
What properties can we use to classify minerals?
Minerals are pure substances while rocks are a combination of two or more minerals or compounds
What is the difference between minerals and rocks?
Scratching over a streak plate, with a nail, with glass
What is Mohs Mineral Scale hardness test?
If it is metallic or nonmetallic
How do we classify minerals according to luster?
Naturally occurring solid aggregate of two or more minerals or compounds
What is a rock?
The continual process by which rocks are changed into different types of rock
What is the rock cycle?
cooled and hardened magma
What is how Igneous rock is formed?
cementation deposits of sediments
What is how sedimentary rock is formed?
pressure and heat
What is how metamorphic rocks form?
2 answers:
-bubble-like & light
-grainy and lined layers
What is igneous and sedimentary?
marbly & wavy layers
What is metamorphic?