Rock Cycle
Rocks break down into sediments.
What are weathering and erosion?
what is Geology?
They can be intrusive (granite) and extrusive (basalt) that can be formed from cooled magma.
What are Igneous Rocks?
Thin outer layer, made of solid rock.
What is Crust?
What is four?
(blank) changes rocks into metamorphic rocks.
What are heat and pressure?
the scientific study of rocks, including their origin, composition, and structure.
what is Petrology?
They can be changed by heat and pressure.
What are Metamorphic Rocks?
Outer core (liquid), inner core (solid), made mostly of iron and nickel.
What is Core?
All living things.
What is Biosphere?
(Blank) is the process by which rocks change from one type to another over time.
What is Rock Cycle?
The study of earthquakes and seismic waves that move through Earth.
What is Seismology?
Its key features are cyrstals; fast cooling=small crystals, slow cooling=large crystals.
What are Igneous Rocks?
There are (blank) earth layers.
What is three?
All water.
What is Hydrosphere?
A (Blank) forms igneous rocks from magma/lava.
What are melting and cooling?
The movement of the Earth's plates.
What is Plate Tectonics?
Layers of sediment compacted over time.
What are Sedimentary Rocks?
semi-solid rock.
What is Mantle?
All solid earth.
What is Geosphere?
Rocks move through a cycle in different ways.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
The branch of geology that studies minerals.
What is Mineralogy?
What are Metamorphic Rocks?
The crust, mantle, and the core.
What are Earth's Layers?
Gases surrounding earth (air, weather).
What is Atmosphere?