Types of Rocks
There are this many types of rocks on Earth.
What is three?
There are these many layers of the Earth.
What is four?
This is the first step in forming Sedimentary rocks and is caused by wind and water.
What is erosion?
There are these many systems of the Earth.
What is four?
In which type of rock do we find fossils?
What is Sedimentary Rock?
This type of rock forms when layers of eroded rock are pressed together, often underground or underwater.
What are sedimentary rocks?
This is the innermost and hottest layer of the Earth.
What is the inner core?
Rocks can change into igneous rocks when either of these cool.
What are magma or lava?
This sphere consists of all of the water in, on and above Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
Mountains, canyons, and hills are all examples of different _____________.
These rocks are formed by extreme pressure or heat under the Earth's surface.
What are metamorphic rocks?
This is the thinnest of the Earth's layers.
What is the crust?
These two things form metamorphic rocks. (Hint: Think deep underground.)
What are heat and pressure?
All living things make up this Earth system.
What is the biosphere?
A scientist who studies fossils is called....
What is a paleontologist?
These types of rocks can form when magma cools inside the Earth or lava cools on the Earth's crust.
What are igneous rocks?
This layer of the Earth is the thickest and is beneath the crust.
What is the mantle?
Metamorphic rocks can change into these types of rocks.
What are Sedimentary rocks and Igneous rocks?
The air we breathe and all gases form a blanket around the Earth called this.
What is the atmosphere?
Scientists collect this as part of the Scientific Method.
What is data?
What are metamorphic rocks?
This layer of the earth is magnetic and contains magma.
What is the outer core?
Sedimentary rocks can change into these types of rocks.
What are Igneous rocks and Metamorphic rocks?
All of Earth's land forms make up this sphere.
What is the geosphere or lithosphere?
Scientists do this to test their hypothesis.
What is experiment?