Rocks

Question 0

What are the four layers of the earth?

Answer 0

Crust
Mantle
Outer core
Inner core

Question 1

What is magma

Answer 1

Molten rock (a little bit melted) rock that is underground.

Question 2

Which layers of the earth can only be studied by indirect means?

Answer 2

The outer & inner core

Question 3

What Is the composition of the outermost layer of the earth?

Answer 3

The crust is made of aluminum, calcium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, silicon.

Question 4

What is the composition of the innermost layer?

Answer 4

The core is made of iron and nickel.

Question 5

What happens to the temperature of the rocks as the layers go deeper into the earth?

Answer 5

The rocks get hotter.

Question 6

In which layer does erosion take place?

Answer 6

The crust, because that is where the wind and the rain are.

Question 7

In what areas is the outermost layer of the earth the thinnest?

Answer 7

The oceanic.

Question 8

Where is it the thickest?

Answer 8

The Continental.

Question 9

Which layer has the greatest mass?

Answer 9

The Continental.

Question 10

The continual process by which new rock forms from old rock material is

Answer 10

The rock cycle.

Question 11

The process by which wind, water, ice or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another is?

Answer 11

Erosion.

Question 12

The process in which material is laid down is called?

Answer 12

Deposition.

Question 13

The minerals a rock contains determines the ——– of that rock?

Answer 13

Composition.

Question 14

The size Shape and positions of the grains that make up the rock determine a rocks ————-.

Answer 14

Texture.

Question 15

———–rock forms when hot liquid rock, or magma cools & solidifies.

Answer 15

Igneous rock

Question 16

When magma INTRUDES, or pushes into surrounding rock, below the earth’s surface, and cools, the rock that forms is called?

Answer 16

Intrusive igneous rock

Question 17

Igneous rock that forms from magma that ERUPTS, or EXTRU

DES, onto the earth’s surface is called?

Answer 17

Extrusive igneous rock

Question 18

The most noticeable feature of sedimentary rock is its layers or?

Answer 18

Strata

Question 19

——– is the process in which sedimentary rocks are arranged in layers.

Answer 19

Stratification

Question 20

——- is the process in which objects are changed by weather affecting the color, texture, composition, or form of that object.

Answer 20

Weathering

Question 21

Being pushed or pressed together tightly is called?

Answer 21

Compaction.

Question 22

Being glued or stuck together?

Answer 22

Cementation

Question 23

Being solidified into another solid

Answer 23

Solidification

Question 24

Solid, naturally occurring, mixture of minerals?

Answer 24

Rock

Question 25

The thin, solid outer layer of the earth?

Answer 25

Crust

Question 26

Rocky layer between the crust and the core of the earth?

Answer 26

Mantle

Question 27

The central part of the earth below the middle

Answer 27

Core

Question 28

Rock formed by or from deposits of sediment by compactation and cementation

Answer 28

Sedimentary rocks

Question 29

Rock altered by pressure and heat

Answer 29

Metamorphic rocks

Question 30

What is magna

Answer 30

It is hot rock