Earths Layers
What is the thinnest layer of Earth's surface?
What is the crust?
How many minerals are there on Earth?
What is Over 5,000?
What is the term for the powder that is left behind?
What is Streak?
What type of rock is formed from cooled magma or lava?
What is Igneous Rock?
What type of rock is formed when small particles of rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together?
What is Sedimentary Rock?
What is the thickest layer of Earth's Surface?
What is the Mantle?
Mohs hardness scale rates minerals on how hard they are. What is the number range that they can be ranked at?
What is 1-10?
What is crystal size determined by?
What is How quickly they are cooled?
What type of rock is formed when a rock is changed by heat or pressure or by chemical reactions?
What is metamorphic Rock?
Where does the energy originate from for things to be organic?
What is the sun?
Which layer of the core is a solid, the hottest layer, and under the most pressure?
What is Inner core?
Minerals can be solid or liquid. True or False?
What is false?
Does a mineral have to be all of the following in order to be a mineral?
Naturally occurring, solid, inorganic, and crystal structure.
What is yes?
What kind of grains does rock have that cools slowly?
What kind of grains does rock have that cools quickly?
What is small grains?
Which layer of the core is a liquid and responsible for the magnetic field?
What is Outer Core?
What is the main difference when graphite and diamond being created that makes diamond worth so much more than graphite?
What is a diamond rated on the Mohs hardness scale?
What is 10?
What is the difference between magma and lava?
What is Magma is below Earth's surface and Lava has reached or is above Earth's surface?
What would happen to the rock cycle if the mantle cooled down and why?
What is the rock cycle would stop because it would not provide heat to heat up the rocks making them less dense and therefore rising back up towards the surface?
What is one example of drect evidence and one example of indirect evidence that has helped us to learn about Earth's interior?
What is rock samples and seismic waves?
What is the difference between cleavage and fracture?
What is cleavage means it has a smooth or flat break. Fracture means that it has a jagged or irregular break.
What is it called when water evaporates leaving behind a crystal?
What is crystallization?
What 3 things happen when rock moves through the rock cycle? (hint: there are 3 answers)
what is Temperature change, density change, location change(rising and sinking)?
How are the types of rocks determined?
What is how they are formed?