Earth's Layers
These two conditions increase in intensity the closer you are to the Earth's core.
What are Heat and Pressure?
This is the state of matter that all minerals exist in.
What is a solid?
This type of rock has intrusive and extrusive varieties.
What is igneous?
This type of rock is likely to be formed at or near tectonic plate boundaries
What is igneous rock?
This is one source of direct evidence scientists use to study Earth's interior.
What are rocks or rock samples?
This is the definite, repeating pattern of a mineral's molecules.
What is crystalline (crystal) structure?
One clue about this property of a rock can be the rock's color.
What is its composition?
This can be generated by any kind of rock that is subject to weathering and erosion.
What is sediment?
This is a source of indirect evidence about the Earth's interior.
Acceptable answers:
Seismic waves
Earth's magnetic field
This describes the way that minerals form in the Earth's crust, regardless of the existence of life on Earth.
What are inorganic processes?
This type of rock most commonly forms deep in the Earth's crust or even in the upper parts of the mantle.
What is metamorphic rock?
This is the word that describes when sediment accumulates somewhere other than where it originated.
What is deposition?
The primary composition of this layer of Earth is Silicon and Oxygen.
What is the Crust?
This physical property of minerals describes how light reflects off its surface.
What is luster?
This is the source of energy that drives the creation of sediment.
What is the Sun?
This is the source of energy for most of the processes in the rock cycle.
What is heat from the Earth's core?
This layer of Earth's interior has more Magnesium that the layer above it.
What is the mantle? (I would also accept the Asthenosphere)
This is considered one special property that a mineral can possess.
Acceptable answers: Magnetism, luminescence, electrical conductivity
This kind of movement drives several of the processes that change and transform rocks in Earth's crust.
What is tectonic plate movement?
This is the only action in the rock cycle that doesn't take an extremely long time to occur.
What is volcanic activity?