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Layers of the
Earth
Rocks and
Minerals
More Rocks
and Minerals
Plate Tectonics
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What are mantle rocks?
This flows slowly.
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What is marble?
Chalk becomes this when
metamorphasized
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What is extrusive rocks
Lava is brought to the surface
Hardens to form this type of
Igneous rock
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What is a fault
A break along which two rocks
Move.
1,4
What is the Gutenburg discontinuity?
This separates the Earth’s mantle
From the outer core
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What are sedimentary rocks
Breccia, coal and puddingstone are
this
2,2
What is composition and texture
Igneous rocks are classified
According to this.
2,3
What is strike-slip boundary
This is when two plates slip
past each other
2,4
What is iron and a magnetic property
The core is mostly made of what
And what property does it give
The Earth.
3,1
What is a foliated rock
When metamorphic rock
contains stripes or bands
3,2
What are igneous rocks
Rocks formed from molten
rock.
3,3
What is a mid-ocean ridge
Underwater mountain chain
created when two plates
separate
3,4
What is oceanic crust?
This crust is thinner
and more dense
than the other type of crust.
4,1
What are porphyritic rocks
These rocks consist of large
crystals scattered on a
Background of much smaller
crystals
4,2
What is the Latin word for leaf
The word foliated comes from
The Latin word for what.
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What are lithospheric plates
These are mostly found under
the ocean
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What is pangaea?
The theory that all seven continents
was once a big super continent
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What are fine-grained igneous rocks
The texture of rocks that
form fast and are extrusive
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What are unfoliated rocks.
Rocks that are not banded and
Don’t break into layer are this.
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What is the theory of plate tectonics?
The earth is made up of
small segments and are
floating on a layer
of liquid rock.
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