Layers of the Earth
This is the only liquid layer of the Earth.
What is the outer core?
This is the study of Earth's physical structure.
What is geology?
This is liquid rock under the ground.
What is magma
This is a fossil made when water seeps through sedimentary rock and weather away the shell before the rock, leaving an impression.
What is a mold?
This theory uses the Biblical Flood as support for their theory.
What is catastrophism?
This type of crust is made of granite and found in land masses.
What is continental crust?
This is the preserved remains of once living organisms.
What is a fossil?
This type of rock is laid down as sediment falls out of water and is chemically hardened.
What is sedimentary rock?
This is a fossil made when another material comes in and fills the impression left behind by an eroded shell.
What is a cast?
This theory believes that the formation of the earth has taken billions of years.
What is uniformitarianism?
This is the border between the crust and mantle.
What is the Moho?
This is a substance made from a mixture of humus, gravel, sand, silt, or clay.
What is soil?
This type of rock was another rock that was changed due to extreme heat and pressure.
This is a fossil made of a thin filmy residue made up of mostly carbon.
What is carbonization?
What is both?
This layer of the mantle is a state of matter between a liquid and a solid called plastic rock.
What is the asthenosphere?
These are inorganic crystalline substances found naturally in the Earth.
What are minerals?
These are the three processes that can happen to a igneous rock in the rock cycle.
What is broken into sediment, melted back into magma, or turned into metamorphic rock?
This is a fossil that is made when organic material chemically changes into rock.
What is petrifaction?
This theory believes the fossil record points to an increase in the complexity of life shown by what animals are fossilized in each layer of rock.
What is uniformitarianism?
This is the lowest and densest part of the mantle.
What is the mesosphere?
This is a surface of erosion that separates one rock layer from another.
What is an unconformity?
This type of igneous rock makes up oceanic crust.
What is basalt?
Paleontologists have found huge numbers of fossils concentrated in enormous deposits called this.
What are fossil graveyards?
This theory has enough evidence to prove the contradicting theory as totally false.
What is neither?