Earth's Layers
Double: The 4 layers of our Earth
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
A mixture of gases that surround Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Broken up pieces of rock
What are sediments?
Name 2 kinds of plates.
What are oceanic plates and continental plates?
Layer of liquid iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core.
What is the outer core?
Contains all of Earth's water.
What is the hyrdrosphere?
Made from cooled and hardened magma/lava
What is igneous rock?
What is the process of turning Granite (Igneous) into Gniess (Metamorphic)?
Heat and Pressure
The uppermost layer of our Earth where everything exists.
What is the crust?
Name the Earth's Spheres
What are Biosphere, Geosphere, Hydrosphere, and Atmosphere
Made from compaction and cementation of sediments
What is sedimentary rock?
Weathering and erosion break down rocks into_________.
This layer is semi-solid, molten rock and composed of iron, magnesium aluminum and silicon.
What is the mantle?
Plant root breaking through a rock or the soil helping a plant grow is an interaction between which 2 spheres.
What is an interaction between the biosphere and geosphere?
Made from extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
Daily Double: One of these is on the surface, the other is under the crust/surface of the earth but both are essentially the same thing. Name the two names
Lava and Magma
The part of the core that is solid and probably made up of iron and nickel and is about 1,250 km thick.
What is the inner core?
When rain brings water to living things is the interaction between which two spheres.
What is an interaction between biosphere and hydrosphere?
Limestone is a type of _______rock.
Sedimentary
Describe how a sedimentary rock can turn into a metaphoric rock
heat and pressure