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Layers
The Cycle
Composition
How Do You Know?
100
The outermost layer of the earth
What is the crust
100
Igneous rock is formed from lava once it is
What is cooled?
100
The central part of the earth
What is inner core
100
These are the plates that the earth moves on
What is techtonic?
200
The layer just beneath the earth's crust
What is the lithosphere
200
Basalt forms from lava that cools on the earth's surface, granite cools from magma that cools inside the volcano. These are what types of rock
What is igneous rock?
200
The lithosphere is includes is part of which two compositional layers
What is crust and mantle?
200
Basalt is an igneous rock. Over billions of years what is least likely to occur
What is stayed the same?
300
The thinnest compositional layer of the earth
What is the crust
300
Shale is a sedimentary rock. For shale to change into slate, which is a metamorphic rock, what processes have to occurs
What is heat and pressure?
300
The compositional layer that is hot and constantly turning or convecting
What is mantle?
300
The rock that is formed from compacting and cementing
What is sedimentary?
400
Earth is composed of three layers, core, mantle, and crust. They are identified by
What is their chemical composition?
400
What areas are the most popular areas igneous rock?
What is areas with volcanos?
400
The core is composed of what two elements
What is iron and nickel?
400
This is the moving part of the mantle
What is convection currents?
500
This is a phyiscal layer of the earth, that is the slower moving, lower part of the mantle
What is the mesophere?
500
The part of the rock cycle that involves melting
What is changing rock to magma?
500
The outer core is the hot ______ portion
What is liquid?
500
List the physical layers of the earth
What is lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesophere, inner core, outer core.