The name for the supercontinent that used to exist millions of years ago.
What is Pangaea?
100
The thinnest layer of the earth, where we live.
What is the crust?
100
This is the hardest mineral......in the whole world!!!!!!!!!!
What is a diamond?
100
These are the names for the three types of rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks?
100
A naturally formed, inorganic solid that has a definite crystalline structure. The building blocks of rocks.
What is a mineral?
200
The liquid part of our Earth that covers three-quarters of our planet.
What is the hydrosphere?
200
This layer is solid! By solid I mean solid rock. It is 2,800 KM's thick. It is found just below the crust.
What is the mantle?
200
The softest mineral on Moh's Hardness Scale.
What is talc?
200
These are rocks that form directly from cooling magma.
What are igneous rocks?
200
This is a naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals, or organic matter.
What is a rock?
300
The layer of gases that surround our planet.
What is the atmosphere?
300
This layer contains melted iron and nickel.
What is the outer core?
300
This mineral is used to make most sandpaper.
What is quartz?
300
These rocks are formed by erosion when sediments are moved from one place to another and are deposited in layers. The layers become compacted and cemented together
What are sedimentary rocks?
300
This type of igneous rock forms when lava erupts onto the Earth's surface and cools quickly to form volcanic rocks.
What are extrusive igneous rocks?
400
The solid part of the planet that is made up of rocks, soil and minerals.
What is the lithosphere?
400
This layer contains solid iron and nickel.
What is the inner core?
400
In this test you scratch a mineral on a tile and then test what color the powder is.
What is the streak test?
400
Rocks that have changed from one type of rock into another type. This change is caused by heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
400
When lava cools quickly enough it forms a type of glass. This glass is black in color. I have also been told it can be used to build objects on Minecraft.
What is obsidian?
500
These are the important gases of the atmosphere that plants and animals need to survive.
What are carbon dioxide and oxygen?
500
This is the order of the Earth's crust starting with the top layer.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core.
500
How a mineral reflects light, whether the mineral is shiny or dull.
What is lustre?
500
Igneous rocks can be formed into two groups. This group of igneous rocks are formed when magma pushes into surrounding rocks below the surface and cool very slowly. Sometimes over millions of years!!!!