Vocabulary
The traits of a person, thing, or group.
What is characteristic?
The layer of the earth that we live on.
What is the crust?
"Geo-"
What is the earth?
Helps you visualize what you are reading.
What is a picture?
Having to do with the continents.
What is continental?
The hottest layer of the earth.
What is the inner core?
Made of elements.
What is a mineral?
Tells you what's in the picture.
What is a caption?
Having to do with the oceans.
What is oceanic?
Solid ball of metal iron and other elements.
What is the inner core?
Made of combinations of minerals and other things.
What are rocks?
A mini-dictionary for your book.
What is a glossary?
All of the world's rocks start out as this.
What is magma?
A layer of dense, hot, liquid rock.
A geologist who studies volcanoes.
A drawing that shows or explains the parts of something.
What is a diagram?
Scientists study these to understand the layers of the earth.
What are seismic waves?
A layer of really hot, constantly moving rocks.
What is the mantle?
A geologist who studies the waves made by earthquakes.
What is a seismologist?
A word or phrase that identifies something in a diagram.