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Vocabulary
Earth's Layers
Types of Rocks
Rock Cycle
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The science that studies rocks, layers of soil, etc., in order to learn about the history of the Earth and its life.
What is geology?
100
The thin, outer most layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
100
The type of rock that is made up of different layers.
What are sedimentary rocks?
100
Metamorphic rocks that melt into magma go through __________ before becoming intrusive igneous rocks.
What is crystallization?
100
The process where a solid turns into a liquid.
What is melting?
200
The planet we live on.
What is the Earth?
200
The underground ocean of liquid rock.
What is the mantle?
200
The type of rock that is formed when magma cools and hardens.
What are igneous rocks?
200
Igneous rocks melt and turn into this.
What is magma?
200
A mountain with a hole in the top or side that sometimes sends out rocks, ash, lava, etc., in a sudden explosion.
What is a volcano?
300
A measurement that indicates how hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
300
The layer that is made up of very hot liquid.
What is the outer core?
300
The type of rock that is formed by pressure and heat under the Earth's surface.
What are metamorphic rocks?
300
Igneous rocks that go through heat and pressure turn into this type of rock.
What are metamorphic rocks?
300
To put something into a group of similar things.
What is categorize?
400
The weight or force that is produced when something presses or pushes against something else.
What is pressure?
400
The layer that is solid because of the extreme pressure and temperature.
What is the inner core?
400
Examples of this type of rock include limestone, sandstone, mudstone, greywacke, chalk, coal, claystone and flint.
What are sedimentary rocks?
400
This is the type of rock that is made after igneous rocks go through weathering and erosion and become sediment.
What is a sedimentary rock?
400
The way that something feels when you touch it.
What is texture?
500
The force that causes things to fall towards the Earth.
What is gravity?
500
The layer that created the Earth's magnetic field.
What is the outer core?
500
Examples of this type of rock includes basalt, granite, pumice, obsidian, tuff, diorite, gabbro and andesite.
What are igneous rocks?
500
This is the type of rock that occurs after metamorphic rocks melt into magma and then cool.
What is an igneous rock?
500
A special quality or trait that makes a person, thing, or group different from others.
What is a characteristic?