This layer of earth is made up of molten and solid rock
What is the mantle?
100
Earthquakes occur when plates do this.
What is slide past each other?
100
Fossils usually form in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
100
This type of rock is formed by intense pressure and heat.
What is a metamorphic rock?
100
A rock with large grains did this.
What is cooled slowly?
200
What is layer of the Earth is made up of solid iron and nickel?
What is the inner core?
200
This happens to pressure and temperature as you move closer to the center of the Earth.
What is increases?
200
These two things are formed when metamorphic rocks melt.
What is magma and lava?
200
The continuous changes that rocks undergo.
What is the rock cycle?
200
This can move sediments away to a new location.
What is erosion (wind, water, or weather)?
300
What is the thinnest layer of the Earth?
What is the crust?
300
The Appalachian Mountain range was formed by plates that did what?
What is moved into each other?
300
This process changes a sedimentary rock into a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
300
Fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas are usually found here.
What is underneath the Earth's crust?
300
The oldest fossils are found here.
What is deep within the crust?
400
An extremely hot layer where nickel and iron melt into a thick liquid state is known as _____.
What is the outer core?
400
This is what the plates move on.
What is the mantle?
400
Magma and lava form an igneous rock through this process.
What is cooling and crystallizing?
400
The products of weathering are called this.
What are sediments?
400
Explain how igneous rock can change to sedimentary rock.
What is weathering -> sediments -> compacting and cementing -> sedimentary rock?
500
As you move closer to the center of the Earth, the pressure and temperature does this.
What is increases?
500
This is what happens when plates spread apart.
What are volcanoes or canyons?
500
The Coastal Plain of Virginia contains fossils of ocean organism. According to scientists, this tells us that the Coastal Plain was once covered by this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
500
Sandstone, shale, and coal are examples of this type of rock.