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Layers of the Earth
Plate Motion
Soil
Rocks
100
The outer layer of the earth
What is the crust?
100
This is where tectonic plates move apart
What is a divergent boundary?
100
This makes up the main part of soil
What is weathered rock?
100
Rocks made by cooled magma or lava
What are igneous rocks?
200
A layer made of liquid iron and nickel
What is the outer core?
200
Where tectonic plates slide past each other
What is a transform fault?
200
The top layer of soil with the most nutrients
What is topsoil?
200
The type of rocks made by heat and pressure
What are metamorphic rocks?
300
A layer made of melted rock and causes plate motion
What is the mantel?
300
Where tectonic plates collide with each other
What is a convergent fault?
300
The scientific name for soil layers
What are horizons?
300
Weathering, erosion, deposition, pressure and cementation are the processes to make this rock type
What is sedimentary rock?
400
The solid metal layer that in extremely hot
What is the inner core?
400
These powerful events can often occur at plate boundaries
What are earthquakes?
400
The base layer below the layers of soil
What is bedrock?
400
Visible layers could possibly be found in these rocks
What are sedimentary and metamorphic rocks?
500
These layers are responsible for creating Earth's magnetic field
What are the mantel and outer core?
500
The process of an ocean plate sinking below a continental plate at a convergent boundary
What is subduction?
500
The process of rain water dissolving minerals and carrying them deeper into the soil
What is leaching?
500
These are rocks made of minerals that were left behind by evaporated water
What are chemical sedimentary rocks?