Rocks, Rocks, and more Rocks
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
What is the thicker crust? Oceanic or Continental.
What is oceanic
What percentage of water is in the earth?
What is 71-75%
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is Igneous?
The movement of sediment
Erosion
The movement of sediment is known as...
What is erosion?
what happens in the mantle?
What is convection currents
Name the layers of the earth top to bottom
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite (metamorphic).
Heat and Pressure
These two things are required for metamorphic rock to form.
What is heat and pressure
What is the mantle made up of?
What is molten rock (melted)
what is the most dense layer of the Earth?
What is the inner core?
Zone of Earth's mantle lying beneath the lithosphere and believed to be much hotter and more fluid than the lithosphere.
What is the asthenosphere?
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks....
What is sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic
What is the outer layer made of?
What is Iron and nickel
What is the affect of convection currents? What do they move?
Molten rock to flow slowly
This type of rock forms through melting and rapid cooling
What is Igneous
True or False? The inner core is made liquid iron and nickel
What is false. it is made out of solid iron and nickel
True of False. Do the convection currents go on in the inner core
What is false. the convection currents go on in the mantle
The solid, outer part of Earth, including the brittle upper portion of the mantle and the crust.
What is the lithosphere?