Earth's Layers
Earth's innermost part
What is inner core?
A solid that is made of different types of materials put together.
What is a rock?
A continuous process by which rocks are created, changed from one form to another, destroyed, and then formed again
What is Rock Cycle?
Continuously or Always
What is Constantly?
An opening in which gas or air can pass through
What is Vent?
The outer portion of the earth or other planets.
What is crust?
A solid that is formed in the earth and is made of one type of element.
What is a Mineral?
Having to do with rocks formed by a volcano or other source of great heat.
What is Igenous?
Magma once it meets the earth's crust
What is lava
The large slabs that make up the earth’s crust.
What are plates?
The layer of the earth that lies between the crust and the core.
What is mantle?
A typical or special quality of a person, group, action or thing.
What is a characteristic?
Rocks formed from sediment layers over time.
What is Sedimentary
What igenous rocks are made of
What is Magma?
A line of weakness or crack in the earth’s crust, at which a plate of rock can shift or slide.
What is Fault?
The part of the earth between the mantle and the inner core, which generates the planet's magnetic field.
What is outer core?
The layering of materials in a natural process.
What is Deposition?
A type of rock formed from heat and pressure deep in the earth
What is Metamorphic?
To burst or break out of
What is Erupt?
The central point of something. (i.e. the spot directly above the center of an earthquake.)
What is Epicenter?
What is Crust, Mantle, Outer Core and Inner Core?
Wearing away of the earth's surface by wind or water
What is erosion?
When Igneous Rock is formed above ground
What is Extrusive Igenous Rock?
A small space inside something.
What is Chamber?
A numerical scale expressing the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is Ritcher Scale?