So This is Earth
This layer of earth is made up of molten and solid rock
What is the mantle?
The fruit that resembles earth 3 compositional layers.
Apple
Fossils usually form in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
This type of rock is formed by intense pressure and heat.
What is a metamorphic rock?
Compare the thickness of the lithosphere to crust
What is the lithosphere is thicker than the crust?
the thinnest layer of the 3 compositional layers
What is the crust?
Please explain how the apple compares to earth 3 layers
What is apple skin = crust, apple flesh = mantle, apple core = core?
These two things are formed when metamorphic rocks melt.
What is magma and lava?
The continuous changes that rocks undergo.
What is the rock cycle?
What is the thin, outer layer of Earth?
Crust
The layer that is above the core and above the mantle
What is crust?
This process changes a sedimentary rock into a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
Name the process that form distorted wavy layers on metamorphic rock
What are heat and pressure?
The thickest layer of the earth
What is the mantle?
An extremely hot layer where nickel and iron melt into a thick liquid state is known as _____.
What is the outer core?
tectonic plates are found in this physical layer
What is lithosphere?
Type of rock formed when molten magma or lava cools and hardens
What is igneous rock?
Process required to change igneous and sedimentary rock to metamorphic rock
What are heat and pressure?
Volcanoes help form what type of rock?
How are Igneous rocks formed?
As you move closer to the center of the Earth, the pressure and temperature does this.
What is increases?
The layer that is solid at the top and liquid at the bottom
What is Mantle?
Weathering , erosion, and deposition form Sediments that have been pressed together to form this type of rock
What is sedimentary rock?
Type of rock formed by volcanoes
What are igneous rock?
The layer below lithosphere
What is asthenosphere?