Vocabulary
Relative dating
Structure of Earth
Plate tectonics
Rock cycle
100

molten rock beneath Earth's surface

What is magma? 

100

The youngest layer

What is layer A? 

100

Earth's rocky, outer layer

What is the crust? 

100

The supercontinent which can be put together using fossils, rock formations, and the fact that current continental coastlines match up

What is pangea? 

100

Turning a rock into sediment

What is weathering? 

200

the preserved remains of a living thing

What is a fossil? 

200

The youngest layer.

What is layer F? 

200

A slowly-moving solid layer

What is the mantle? 

200

Causes Earthquakes when two plates rub past each other

What is a transform boundary?

200

Rocks transformed from other rocks by heat and pressure

What is a metamorphic rock? 

300
where two plates rub past each other

What is a transform boundary? 

300

The layers in order from youngest to oldest 

What are H, R, M, F, B, I? 

300

The denser of Earth's two types of crust

What is oceanic crust? 

300

Provides a mechanism for continental drift 

What is seafloor spreading?

300

Rocks created when lava or magma cools

What is an igneous rock? 

400

These are found all over the world and existed for only a (geologically) short period of time.

What are index fossils? 

400

The oldest fossil. 

What is a trilobite? 

400

It is extremely hot, extremely dense, and solid

What is the inner core?

400

This happens where plates converge. Causes old crust to be recycled, and can cause volcanoes

What is subduction? 

400

Rocks made from sediments compacted and cemented over time. May contain fossils. 

What is a sedimentary rock? 

500

States that any feature that is cut through is older than the feature that does the cutting through

What is the law of crosscutting relations? 

500

The oldest rock layer

What is layer E? 

500

Plasticky layer on which the lithosphere sits

What is the asthenosphere? 

500

Plate margins are places where much activity occurs. Volcanoes happen at this type of boundary

What is a convergent boundary where one plate is subducted beneath another. 

500

How long it can take for a rock to metamorphise  

millions of years