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This layer is very thin and contains lots of water.
What is the crust?
100
Where volcanoes and earthquakes occur.
What are faults?
100
Type of rock created when rocks cool.
What are igneous rocks?
100
Created by nature and can be used.
What is a natural resource?
100
Types of water resources can be found in Virginia.
What are ocean, bay, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs?
200
Temperatures in this layer are so hot the rocks move as if on a conveyor belt.
What is the mantle?
200
When two plates crash into eachother.
What is a convergent boundary?
200
Type of rock created when pieces of rocks and sand are compacted and cemented together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
200
Natural or artificial lake or large tank used for collecting and storing water.
What is a reservoir?
200
Types of animal resources in Virginia.
What are black bear, deer, turkey, perch, trout.
300
This layer contains iron and nickel so hot it is like pudding.
What is the outer core?
300
Formed when two plates move away from each other?
What is a volcano?
300
Type of rocks that are changed by heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
300
Water resource surrounded by land on three sides.
What is a bay?
300
Types of mineral resources found in Virginia.
What are coal, limestone, granite, sand, and gravel?
400
This layer is solid iron and rock.
What is the inner core?
400
Formed in the ocean at a convergent boundary.
What is a trench?
400
The system to understanding the formation of rocks is called this.
What is the Rock Cycle?
400
Water resource that flows along a definite path usually into the ocean.
What is a river?
400
The difference between a natural and cultivated forest.
What is grown by nature versus planted and grown by the government or business for a specific reason.
500
These two things increase the further into the earth you go.
What are heat and temperature?
500
Type of boundary that causes earthquakes.
What are transform or sliding boundaries?
500
This causes the sediment to be created.
What are weathering and erosion?
500
Examples of water resources in Virginia.
What is Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay, James River, John H. Kerr Lake, Smith Mountain Lake.
500
Because we all live downstream.
Why do we all need to take care of our local water?