Vocabulary
A person who studies rocks
What is a geologist?
The layer of the earth that we live on.
What is the crust?
Describes how rocks are made and transformed into three different types of rocks.
What is the rock cycle?
Helps you visualize what you are reading.
What is a picture/photo?
Having to do with the continents.
What is continental?
The innermost layer of the earth
What is the inner core?
What are minerals?
Tells you what's in the picture.
What is a caption?
Having to do with the oceans.
What is oceanic?
Layer beneath the earth's crust
What is the mantle?
When tectonic plates slide and move, these can occur.
What are earthquakes?
A mini-dictionary for your book.
What is a glossary?
Melted rock that is under the earth's surface.
What is magma?
Layer between the inner core and the mantle
What is the outer core?
Rocks are formed by sediment being pressed together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
A drawing that shows or explains the parts of something.
What is a diagram?
Melted rock that has spewed out of a volcano
What is lava?
70% of the earth's crust is covered by it.
What is water?
Rocks formed from magma and intense heat.
What are igneous rocks?
Tells you the chapter titles and what page to find them on
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