You're a Rock Star
This rock is formed when layers compact together.
Sedimentary
Name the four layers of the earth.
Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
Living in California is dangerous due to which natural disaster?
Earthquakes
What is the name of the supercontinent?
Pangea
When wind or water move sediments to a new location.
Daily Double!
Rock that forms when magma cools and hardens.
Igneous
Which layer of the earth continues hot liquid?
inner core
What is a fracture, or crack, in the Earth's crust?
Fault
There are three ways that these can move.
(Slide, move apart, or collide)
Tectonic plates
What two things need to change to form a metamorphic rock?
Igneous and Sedimentary
What must occur for metamorphic rocks to be formed?
Heat and pressure
Daily Double!
Name the two types of crust that make up the earth's surface.
Continental Crust and Oceanic Crust
Which natural disaster causes a tsunami? And where must that natural disaster take place?
Earthquake (under water)
This is when the crust sinks down into the mantle under water.
Ocean trench
Physical and Chemical
Granite
An idea that has been suggested and may be true but has not yet been proven is called a _______.
Hypothesis
The lava that erupts from a volcano originally started where?
Magma Chamber
The process of when an ocean plate slides under a continental plate.
Subduction
What mineral is found in rocks that changes the rocks color?
Iron
What are two adjectives that describe the igneous rock obsidian?
smooth, glasslike
Which chapter described how Pele helped create the Hawaiian islands?
Chapter 5
Describe how the first seismograph compares to the seismographs scientists use today?
The original used dragons releasing marbles into frogs' mouths. The current seismograph uses jagged up and down lines.
This is when new ocean crust is created on either side of a rift.
Ridge
What caused the changes of the Grand Canyon?
The Colorado River