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Weathering and Erosion
Rock Cycle
Layers of Earth
Plate Tectonics
Hodge Podge
100
Breakdown of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
Type of rock that is changed because of heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
100
Layer of Earth where we live.
What is the crust?
100
Earthquakes are often found along these lines.
What are plate boundaries?
100
The Earth is this shape.
What is a sphere?
200
Two types of weathering.
What are chemical and mechanical weathering?
200
Type of rock that is formed when sediments are layered on top of each other.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
Layer of the earth that is solid.
What is the inner core?
200
Mountains are often formed when this happens.
What are converging plates?
200
This is the sphere that contains all life.
What is the biosphere?
300
Movement of sediment from one location to another.
What is erosion?
300
Type of rock that is formed from volcanoes.
What is igneous rock?
300
Element that makes up most of the core.
What is iron?
300
The earth changes because of these (many) processes.
What are earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, weathering, and erosion?
300
Sphere of the earth that contains mostly gasses.
What is the atmosphere?
400
Water, wind, and ice aid in this geologic process.
What is erosion?
400
All types of rocks can be broken down into sediment by this process.
What are weathering and erosion?
400
Largest section of the layers of Earth.
What is the mantle?
400
Earthquakes are measured using this scale.
What is the Richter Scale?
400
An earthquakes magnitude is measured using this machine.
What is a seismograph?
500
Process in which sediment is added to a land mass.
What is deposition?
500
Rock where fossils are found.
What is sedimentary rock?
500
The crust is composed of these large blocks.
What are tectonic plates?
500
The supercontinent was called this.
What is Pangea?
500
Layer of the atmosphere that we live in.
What is the troposphere?