Layers of the Earth
What are the four layers of the Earth?
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core
What is the name for the spot where two tectonic plates meet?
Fault
What happens during a Divergent Boundary?
Tectonic plates move away from each other.
What are the three types of rocks?
Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic
What happens during Weathering?
Rocks are broken up into sediment
Which layers are made up of iron and nickel? Which one is solid and which one is liquid?
Solid: Inner Core
Liquid: Outer Core
How to tectonic plates move?
Heat from the Mantle
What creates at a Divergent Boundary?
2 answers!
Ridges/Valleys and Volcanoes
What are the two types of Weathering?
Physical and Chemical
What happens during Erosion?
Sediment is moved to a new location
What is the largest layer of the Earth? What is it made out of?
What kind of boundary has plates that move towards each other?
Convergent Boundaries
What boundary happens when two tectonic plates slide against, or tickle each other?
Transform Boundary
What is needed to form an Igneous rock?
Other rock melting into magma and then cooled
What is it called when sediment is deposited at a new location and stays there?
Deposition
The further deep in the Earth you go, the more there is what?
2 answers!
Heat and Pressure
What is the main structure to be created by a Convergent Boundary?
Mountains
What is created at a Transform Boundary?
Earthquakes
What is needed to form a Metamorphic rock?
Heat and Pressure
What is needed to form a Sedimentary rock?
Rocks are weathered into sediment, then compacted and cemented
Does the Earth constantly change?
Yes!!!
What are the three brain dumps to remember each boundary?
Convergent - come together
Divergent - drift apart
Transform - tickle
Why does Virginia not get a lot of earthquakes?
We are not near any faults!
What kind of rocks are porous, or have a glassy surface?
Igneous rocks
What kind of rocks have layers?
Sedimentary and Metamorphic rocks