Earth Layers
Igneous Rocks
Ice Age
Glaciers
More Igneous Rocks
100
The layer of the earth that is a solid metal ball.
What is the inner core
100
All igneous rocks form from this melted rock.
What is magma?
100
The large hairy elephant-like creature that became extinct during the Ice Age.
What is a mammoth?
100
The name of the explorer who wanted to cross Antarctica and sailed on a ship called The Endurance.
Who was Ernest Shackleton?
100
Igneous rocks that from under the earth's crust.
What are intrusive rocks?
200
The thinnest layer of the earth
What is the crust?
200
Holes formed by an extrusive igneous rock, when it cooled quickly and gases escaped.
What are vesicles?
200
The number of years that the Ice Age lasted.
What is 700?
200
The percent of the earth that is currently covered by glaciers.
What is 10%?
200
Igneous rocks that form on the earth's surface.
What extrusive rocks?
300
The thickest layer of the earth.
What is the mantle?
300
Magma that has come to the earth's surface through a volcano.
What is lava?
300
Volcanic material in the air that contributed to cooler temperatures after the Flood.
What is ash?
300
The scratches in the ground caused by rocks being dragged along the ground by a glacier.
What are striations?
300
The most common igneous rock in the continental crust.
What is granite?
400
What scientists use to determine the thickness of the earth's layers.
What are seismic waves?
400
Extrusive igneous rock that was used by Indians to make arrowheads.
What is obsidian?
400
The climate of the world before the Flood.
What is warm and tropical?
400
The shape of a valley carved by a glacier.
What is U-shaped?
400
The size of crystals in intrusive igneous rocks because they cool slowly.
What is large?
500
Where the Earth's crust is thickest.
What is under the mountains?
500
The size of crystals in extrusive igneous rocks because they cool quickly.
What is small?
500
Two conditions needed for an Ice Age are wet, snowy winters and ___________.
What are cool summers?
500
The line of rocks left behind after a glacier stops moving and melts.
What is a moraine?
500
The most common igneous rock in the oceanic crust.
What is basalt?