Earth's Layers
outermost layer of Earth (where we live)
What is the crust?
Earth's crust is made up of interlocking pieces called
What is tectonic plates?
Rocks formed from cooling and solidification of molten rock
What is igneous rocks?
Where the land, rocks, and soil reside
Geosphere
Developed the theory of continental drift
layer between the crust and the core
What is the mantle?
Landforms created by a convergent boundary
What is mountain ranges and volcanoes?
Rocks formed from the accumulation, compaction, and cementation of sediments
What is sedimentary rocks?
Where the water resides
What is the hydrosphere?
Examples of geological hazards
What are earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, and volcanoes?
outer core
What is liquid metal (iron and nickel)?
Landforms created by a divergent plate boundary
What is rifts and valleys?
What is metamorphic rocks?
Where the air and gases reside
What is the Atmosphere?
Abrasion is what type of weathering
What is physical weathering?
inner core
What is solid metal (iron and nickel)?
Landforms created by a transform plate boundary
What is earthquakes?
Melted rock inside the Earth's surface
Magma
Where living things reside
What is the biosphere?
Rust is an example of what type of weathering
What is chemical weathering?
number of layers of the earth
What is four layers?
Two tectonic plates California sits on
What is the Pacific and North American Plate?
Melted rock that erupts onto Earth's surface
Lava
Fossils are
What is the remains of living organisms?
Information we can get from fossils
What is what ancient environments were like, how animals changed over time, and how an animal behaved