Rock Transformations
What is the ability to make things move or change?
Energy
What is an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart?
Mid-Ocean Ridge
What is the organelle that is responsible for making energy in the cell?
Mitochondria
What is all the living things on a planet?
Biosphere
What is Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water?
Outer layer
What is the movement of sediment from one place to another, often caused by wind or flowing water?
Erosion
What is a long, narrow groove that forms where water, lava, or other liquid flows?
Channel
What organelle houses the chromosomes and DNA for a cell?
The nucleus
What are the conditions necessary to support life?
Habitable
What is evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints?
Fossils
What is the rock type formed when magma cools and becomes solid?
Igneous Rock
What is a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together?
Trench
What is tiny organisms that are made of a single cell?
Bacteria
What is an event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or flowing lava?
A geologic process
What is moving toward the same place?
Convergent
What is the rock type formed when heat or pressure deep underground changes existing rock?
Metamorphic Rock
What is a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune?
Landform
What is a number that summarizes a set of data and that can be computed by adding all the numbers in a list and then dividing by the number of numbers in the list?
Average
What is the solid part of a rocky planet?
Geosphere
What is moving apart in different directions?
Divergent
What is a region of rock that formed together as a single rock type?
Rock Formation
What is a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground?
Geyser
What is a balanced state in which a system is stable, such as when two or more samples are at the same temperature?
Equilibrium
What is the mixture of gases surrounding a planet?
Atmosphere
What is one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer?
Plates