Earth's Layers
Rock Cycle
Tectonic Plate ID
Tectonic Plate Boundaries
Misc
100
The inner core
This is a solid piece of nickel and iron.
100
solidified
which of the following would represent cooling in the rock cycle?
weathered solidified reworked firmed
100
Pacific
What is the name of the plate numbered 1?
100
crust and mantle
When an earthquake occurs it is the movement of what two parts of the earth?
crust and mantle
mountains and oceans
glaciers and volcanoes
100
the lithosphere is thicker than the crust
You make a model of the earths layers. How does the thickness of the lithosphere compare to the thickness of the crust?
200
Mantle
I make up most of the earth's interior
200
igneous
basic rock type that was melted and cooled below ground
200
African
What plate is numbered 4?
200
subduct
When to oceanic plates collide the denser oceanic plate will ___________ under the less dense plate.
200
Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust
List the layers of the earth in order from the middle to the surface of the earth.
300
lithosphere
I make up the crust and upper mantle
300
Igneous
A student made a lemon drop candy by melting sugar, water, and lemon flavoring in a pan. They poured the clear yellow mixture on a baking sheet and let it cool. What type of rock is formed this way?
300
North American
What plate is numbered 2?
300
new ocean floor
At a divergent boundary space is created between two plates, melted rock fills this space and cools forming _________ __________ __________.
300
cooling and hardening
What happen to magma to form a igneous rock?
400
Crust
I am the thinnest of all the layers
400
metamorphic
Long periods of heat and pressure result in the formation of this rock.
400
South American
What plate is numbered 5?
400
push two towels together
Which of the following methods would best describe how the mountains form?
drop pennies into a pile
drip water on the sides of sugar cubes
push two towels together
400
South American and African
North American and African
North American and Eurasion
Between what two plates would an ocean boundary most likely form?
500
The skin
What part of an apple would represent the crust of the earth?
500
long periods of heat and pressure
What process happens to limestone to turn it into the metamorphic rock marble?
500
convergent
What type of plate boundaries caused the Rockies and the Appalachian mountains found in the United States?
500
North American and Pacific
What two plates form the transform boundary found in California?