Land and Features
What does a physical/relief map show us?
the elevation of landforms on the surface of the earth using color
What are rocks composed of?
What are minerals?
What causes the movement of the tectonic plates?
What is magma below that surface that is circulating?
What is the crust of the Earth made of?
What is rocks
a type of rock that is created when pre-existing rock changes form due to heat and/or pressure
Metamorphic Rock
What colors show a high elevation?
Red and Orange
What are the layers of the Earth from the deepest layer to the most outer layer?
inner core, outer core, mantle, crust
What is weathering?
What is breaking down of rock by wind, water, or rain?
What are the different properties of rocks that are used to classify them?
texture, luster, and color
What is the type of rock that is formed by heat and pressure?
What is sedimentary rock?
What colors show a low elevation?
Green
What is the Grand Canyon?
a flat land with a river flowing through it.
What is erosion?
What is the carrying away of broken down rock?
Which type of rock is formed when rising magma cools and hardens?
igneous rock
What is the theory that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core called?
What is continental drift
How did the surface of the Earth change overtime by looking at the fossils in the image?
What is changing from a water ecosystem to one that is only land since there are no fish fossils found.
outer layer of Earth
CRUST
What caused the land to change in the image?
What is weathering and erosion
What is the rock cycle?
What is the system that helps to break down and build up rocks for the creation of landforms. What is igneous rocks, weathering/erosion, sedimentary rock, melting, metamorphic rock, cooling, igneous rock.
Volcanoes develop near this in the Pacific Ocean
the Ring of Fire.
How many continents are there? Name all of the continents.
7 Contients
North America
South America
Europe
Africa
Asia
Australia
Antarctica
dense layer of rock below crust that continues to heat moving deeper into layer; rock reaches liquid state at inner most part of mantle
MANTLE
What is Deposition ?
when this broken down rock (sediments) are “dropped off” in a different location.
a type of rock formed by layers that are squeezed and cemented together
Sedimentary Rock
Do rocks change form?
yes rocks can change form over a very, very long period of time.