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The Rock Cycle
Landforms
Layers of the Earth
Earthquake/Volcano
Fossil/Geologic Time
100
Rock that is forms when sediment is changed by heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
100
An area of land higher than the land around it...usually at least 1600 ft. tall.
What is a mountain?
100
Melted rock within the earth.
What is magma?
100
A volcano that has steep peaks and is explosive when it erupts.
What is a composite volcano?
100
The rock that most fossils form in.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
The breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces or sediment.
What is weathering?
200
An area with higher land around it.
What is a valley?
200
The thinnest and outermost layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
200
A break in the earth's crust where rock moves.
What is a fault?
200
Trees or wood in which minerals replace the orignial cells.
What is petrified wood?
300
Rock that forms when layers of sediment are pressed together.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
A large, flat area with possible rolling hills.
What is a plain?
300
The hottest layer of the earth. it is solid with temperatures as high as 9,000 degrees farenheit.
What is the inner core?
300
The area on the earth's crust where an earthquake originates.
What is the epicenter?
300
A fossil that doesn't show how a whole plant or animal looked, but tells something about it.
What is a trace fossil?
400
The movement of sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
400
A deposit of sand and sediment at the end of a river.
What is a delta?
400
The thickest layer of the earth...it flows like taffy.
What is the mantle?
400
A huge mountain that erupts slowly with lava gently flowing down its sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
400
The era when there were more fish than any other vertebrate.
What is the Paleozoic Era?
500
Rock that forms when melted rock cools and hardens.
What is igneous rock?
500
A flat area higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
500
The innermost layer of the earth made of liquid.
What is the outer core?
500
The area beneath the earth's crust where an earthquake originates.
What is the focus?
500
Humans first appeared in this era.
What is the Cenosoic Era?