Ch3

Question 0

Result from a forcing pressure on an area

Answer 0

Pressure

Question 1

When earthquakes occur they produce

Answer 1

Seismic waves

Question 2

The layer of rock that forms earth outer skin

Answer 2

Crust

Question 3

A dark fine grained rock

Answer 3

Basalt

Question 4

A rock usually is a light color and has coarse grains

Answer 4

Granite

Question 5

The rock below the boundary is the solid material of the ——– a layer of hot rock

Answer 5

Mantle

Question 6

The group that contains the crust and upper most mantle this is called

Answer 6

Lithosphere

Question 7

Below the lithosphere this soft layer is called

Answer 7

Asthenosphere

Question 8

The result of increasingly high pressure

Answer 8

Mesosphere

Question 9

A layer of molten metal surrounding the inner core

Answer 9

Outer core

Question 10

A dense ball of solid metal

Answer 10

Inner core

Question 11

The transfer of energy that is carried in rays is called

Answer 11

Radiation

Question 12

Heat transfer by a movement of fluids is called

Answer 12

Convection

Question 13

Heat transfer between material that are touching is called

Answer 13

Conduction

Question 14

The measure of how much mass is in an object

Answer 14

Density

Question 15

The flow that transfers heat within a fluid is called

Answer 15

Convection current

Question 16

The approximately 20 minerals that make up most of the rocks of earths crust

Answer 16

Rock forming materials

Question 17

most rocks are made up of these particles

Answer 17

Grain

Question 18

The look and feel of a rocks surface

Answer 18

Texture

Question 19

Forms from cooling of molten materials

Answer 19

Igneous rock

Question 20

Forms when small particles of rocks or the remains of plants or animals are pressed and demented together

Answer 20

Sedimentary

Question 21

Forms when a rock is changed by heat or pressure or by chemical reactions

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Metamorphic

Question 22

Solid naturally occurring substances

Answer 22

Minerals

Question 23

Igneous rock formed from lava that erupted onto earths surface

Answer 23

Extrusive rock

Question 24

Igneous rock that formed when magma hardened beneath the surface of earth

Answer 24

Intrusive rock

Question 25

The thin flat layering found in most metamorphic rocks

Answer 25

Foliated

Question 26

Small solid peices of material that come from rocks or living thinks

Answer 26

Sediment

Question 27

The effects of freezing thawing plant roots acid and other forces on rock

Answer 27

Weathering

Question 28

The process by which running water wind or ice carry away bits if broken up rock

Answer 28

Erosion

Question 29

The process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind carrying it

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Deposition

Question 30

The process that presses sediment together

Answer 30

Compaction

Question 31

The process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together

Answer 31

Cementation

Question 32

A sedimentary rock formed when rock fragments are squeezed together

Answer 32

Clastic rock

Question 33

Forms where the remains of plants and animals are deposited in layers

Answer 33

Organic rock

Question 34

Forms when minerals dissolved In a water solution crystallize

Answer 34

Chemical rock

Question 35

A series of processes that occur on earths surface and in the crust and mantle that slowly change rocks from one kind to another

Answer 35

Rock cycle

Question 36

Where does the heat come from that drives this convection current in the mantle

Answer 36

The core and the mantle

Question 37

In order list the sequence or processes through which sedimentary rocks forms

Answer 37

Weathering and erosion
Deposition
Compaction
Cementation

Question 38

What is ways sedimentary rocks have been used throughout history

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Tools and building materials

Question 39

Which type of rock

Coal

Answer 39

Organic

Question 40

Describe how the granite of a mountain could change first into sandstone and them into quatize

Answer 40

The particles breaks off then streams carry them to the ocean layers of sand slowly pile on the ocean floor and is then compacted

Question 41

Describe how collision between continental plates can result In metamorphic rock

Answer 41

When the plates collide heat and pressure slowly change from one type of rock to another