Layers of the Earth
Which layer is the densest?
What is the inner core?
When the ground starts to shake.
What is a earthquake?
This is the building blocks of rocks.
What is minerals?
How are sedimentary rocks formed?
What is they are rock that forms when sediments are compacted and cemented together or when minerals form from solutions.
The breakdown of solid materials into very small particles by water, air, and natural events.
What is weathering?
Which layer has the lowest denest?
What is the crust?
This boundary occurs when two plates move away from one another creating rift valleys in continental material and ridges in ocean basins.
What is divergent boundary?
What property describes how the surface of a mineral reflects light?
What is luster?
How are igneous rocks formed?
What is they are formed when magma or lava cools or hardens
The gradual wearing down of something by wind, water, and other natural forces.
What is erosion?
How would you describe the mantle layer?
What is the thickest (largest) layer between the crust and the outer core.
This boundary occurs when two plates collide, forming volcanoes, mountains, and ocean trenches.
What is convergent boundary?
Naturally occurring, inorganic solids with a definite chemical composition and a crystal lattice structure
What is a Mineral?
How are metamorphic rocks formed?
What is rock that forms when heat, pressure, or fluids act on igneous, sedimentary, or other metamorphic rock to change its form or composition or both
A valley shaped like a U that is formed by glaciers moving along and down a slope.
What is U-Shaped Valley?
Name the two layers that make up the Lithosphere.
What is the crust and the upper mantle?
This boundary occurs as two plates move past each other, causing faulting and earthquake activity.
What is transform boundary?
What is a cleavage/fracture, color, streak, hardness, or luster?
A model that describes how rocks slowly change from one form to another through time.
What is the rock cycle?
Occurs when solid fragments of weathered rock are eroded (moved) and then dropped into a new place by wind, water, ice, and gravity.
What is a deposition?
List the layers of the Earth in order from the surface.
What is Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core?
What happens at a rock layer after faulting occurs?
What is it shifts and breaks.
An unknown mineral sample was found on a field trip. The sample has a metallic luster, orange streak, and can scratch Gypsum. Which mineral was found on the trip?
What is a Fangite?
What are the two processes for weathering?
What is chemical and physical weathering?