How types of rock form.
How does igneous rock form?
When melted rock cools and hardens.
A moutain formed by tectonic plates?
Flat top.
What is weathering?
The breaking down of rock into smaller pieces.
What connections does it have to the hydrosphere?
Whethering and erosion.
What is the crust?
The thin outer layer of earth where we live.
How does sedamentary rock form?
when diffrent types of rocks are pressed together.
Another moutain formed by tectonic plates?
Denali.
What is cedemention?
When minerals glue sediment together into rock.
What connections does it have to the biosphere?
What is the mantle?
The thick hot layer between the core and the crust.
How does medamorphic rock form?
When heat and presure builds up inside the earth.
And another moutain formed by tectonic plates?
gulch.
What is a parent isotope and a daughter isotope?
The original radioactive element in a rock and the new element formed when the parent isotope breaks down.
What connections does it have to the atmosphere?
Magnetic feild points.
What is the outer core?
The liquid layer around the inner core.
How does magma form?
When rock melts and rises to the surface.
And another one moutain formed by tectonic plates?
Sleeping lady.
What is absolute dating?
Finding the exact age of a rock or fossil.
What connections does it have to it's self?
Everything.
What is the inner core?
The solid, hottest center of earth.
How does sediment form?
When peices or rock, sand, or dirt have erosion happen and turns into small peices or rock, sand, or dirt. aka sediment.
And one more moutain formed by tectonic plates?
M.T. Sphere.
What is a half life?
The time it takes for half a parent isotope to change into a daughter isotope.
What connections does it have to your every day life?
Many answers are true.
What is the strata?
Layers of rock.