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Layers of the Earth
Soil
Rocks
Fast Surface Changes
Slow Surface Changes
100
This is the inner most layer of the Earth.
What is the Earth's inner core?
100
This is the soil that is the most nutrient. This is where plants roots can thrive.
What is topsoil?
100
This rock is made from heat and pressure and have been CHANGED.
What is metamorphic rock?
100
The sudden movement of loose rock and soil down a steep slope is called?
What is a landslide?
100
This happens when a rock gets rained on for a period of time and slowly wears down.
What is erosion?
200
This is the layer right outside of the inner core.
What is the outer core?
200
This layer of soil contains the most rock.
What is substratum?
200
These rocks are made when sediment settles and pressure over time causes it to harden.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
This is another name for a fault.
What is a crack?
200
This is what it is called when bits of rock move from one place to another, usually by water.
What is weathering?
300
This layer is right below the Earth's crust.
What is the mantle?
300
This is what you call decayed plants and animals.
What is humus?
300
These rocks are usually found near volcanoes, and have melted, cooled, and hardened.
What is igneous rock?
300
This is the difference between magma and lava.
Magma is molton rock in a volcano and lava is molten rock that comes out of a volcano.
300
This is what it is called when sediment drops down by wind, water, or ice.
What is deposition.
400
This is the outer most layer of the Earth.
What is the Earth's Crust?
400
This layer of soil is in between the topsoil and substratum.
What is subsoil?
400
Rocks are made up of these.
What are minerals?
400
These are the three ways Earth's crust can move during an earthquake.
What is push together, pull apart, and side to side.
400
Describe how a volcanic eruption changes the land and air?
*Up to judge
500
As you get further inside of the Earth, the temperature gets...
What is hotter?
500
Name four things soil is made up of.
What is ....
500
This lies beneath the three layers of soil.
What is bedrock?
500
These are the three types of volcanoes.
What is cinder, shield, and composite.
500
Why might a person decide not to live in a town located near a fault?
*Up to judge