Earth's Layers
The name of Earth's middle layer.
What is the mantle?
What is weathering?
Name how water can erode, or carry away, rock.
It carries small pieces of rock away in its stream as it passes by.
What are landforms?
An opening in the Earth's crust from which hot melted material erupts.
What is a volcano?
The name of the top layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
What is erosion?
Name how wind can erode, or carry away, rock.
Strong winds carry away sand and dry soil from rocks.
A landform made by rivers and glaciers that move through and form low, narrow pathways.
What is a valley?
Name the materials that come out of a volcano during an eruption.
What are ash, cinders, and lava.
The name of the center layer of Earth.
What is the core?
Name how gravity erodes or carries away rock.
Gravity pushed down on rock and soil which makes it go downhill.
A plain that is higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
A shaking of Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
This layer is made of hot igneous and metamorphic rock.
What is the mantle?
Name how water can break down or weather rock.
It weakens rock and breaks it into pieces.
Name how living things can erode, or carry away, rock.
Living things can tunnel or move through soil and rock and carry away pieces.
A large moving body of ice that is formed in cold places over many years.
What is a glacier?
What are cracks in the Earth's crust, piles of rubble, damage to buildings, and landslides.
This layer of Earth is made of metal.
What is the core?
Name how plants can break down or weather rocks.
What is their roots can grow close to the surface and split or crack the ground.
Name the difference between weathering and erosion.
Weathering is the breaking down of rocks, erosion is when those broken down pieces are carried away.
A landform that forms when a flow of water slows enough to fill an area.
What is a lake?
Where the lava forms in a volcano (hint: one of Earth's layers).
What is deep in the mantle?