Rocks
A Type of rock that forms when particles of rock and other materials are compacted and cemented together?
What is a sedimentary rock?
How Many Fault Lines Are There In California?
What is 4 or 5?
What is the outside layer of the Earth called?
Crust
How many large plates form the outer shell of the earth?
what is 7?
What are Major Properties to classify minerals
Color, Streak, and Luster
A Type of rock that forms when heat and great pressure beneath Earth's surface is applied to igneous or sedimentary rock.
What is a metamorphic rock?
What Causes Earthquakes?
What is caused by the constant movement between the Earth's plates?
Describe how volcanoes form?
when plates collide. One plate slides under the other, causing rocks in the lower plate to melt as they enter the hot mantle.
What lies directly beneath the crust?
What is the mantle?
What are Properties Geologists use to study rocks?
Mineral Composition, Texture, and Color
Type of rocks that forms when molten magma from within earth cools and solidifies
What is an Igneous Rock?
Will Northern California Have Another, More Powerful Quake?
YES.
What is the sequence of events before, during, and after a volcanic eruption?
When a volcano erupts it does not just simply erupt out of nowhere and then that's the end of it. The eruption of a volcano is a process.
The upper mantle and crust make up what major tectonic feature of our planet?
What is the lithosphere?
What are Sequence of processes of Sedimentary Rocks?
Weathering and Erosion, Deposition, Compaction, and Cementation
In order for metamorphic rock to become igneous rock, what must happen?
What is melt, then cool?
Can earthquakes be predicted?
it is not possible to predict earthquakes and certainly not possible to specify in advance their exact date, time and location.
What are 3 types of volcanoes?
There are three main types of volcano - composite or strato, shield and dome.
What lies directly beneath the lithosphere and is around 200 km thick?
What is the asthenosphere
What are 3 types of Sedimentary Rocks
Clastic, Chemical, and Organic
Jesse found some old rocks in in his basement.They had large crystals and were labeled "continental crust." What type of rocks were they?
What is igneous?
Does the rate of earthquakes increase during the cold weather?
NO
What happens as magma, in a magma chamber, forces its way up through weak spots of the crust?
Magma is the term that is used to call molten rocks that resides deep within the earth. It is composed of crystals, particles of rock, liquids and different types of gas.
What is subduction?
Subduction is when one lithospheric plate descends beneath another.
Metamorphic Rocks are Classified as
arrangement of grains making up the rock