Layers of the Earth and Rock Cycle

What process is occurring at Y?

• Weathering, sedimentation, compaction, and cementation

• Melting, cooling, and hardening

• Heat and pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

How many layers does Earth have?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What is the thinnest layer?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

What is the thickest layer?

• Crust

• Mantle

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

Which type of rock is made by small bits of rock, mud, or sand compacted and cemented together?

• Coal
• igneous
• metamorphic
• sedimentary

Which type of rock is made from lava or magma cooling?

• igneous

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which type of rock is made from a rock being changed by heat and pressure?

• Smooshed Rock
• igneous
• metamorphic
• sedimentary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Which type of rock is made from magma cooling inside Earth?

• cool rock

• intrusive igneous

• non-foliated metamorphic

• sedimentary

a rock that formed from layers of sediments

• metamorphic
• igneous
• sedimentary
• magma

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Which type of rock forms from heat and extreme pressure?

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Organic

• Metamorphic