Changing Earth Review

What is the OUTER layer of the Earth called?

• mantle

• inner core

• crust

• outer core

Tags

NGSS.5-ESS2-1

The thick layer of rock found between Earth's crust and core is called the ___________________.

• mantle

• core 

• inner Earth

• outer core

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The solid inner part of the Earth is called this

• mantle

• inner core

• crust

• outer core

The liquid inner part of the Earth is called ________________.

• Ocean

• mantle

• inner core

• outer core

What forms when melted rock from Earth's mantle cools and hardens?

• sedimentary rock

• rock cycle

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

This is rock that forms when sand, particles of rock, bits of soil harden.

• sedimentary rock

• rock candy

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

New rock that forms when existing rocks CHANGE is called

• sedimentary rock

• minerals

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

______ is sand, particles of rock, and the remains of once living things

• sediment

• mantle 

• rock

• the beach

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

What is the movement of rock minerals from one place to another?

• Deposition

• Glaciers

• Erosion

• Weathering

Metamorphic rock affected by weathering becomes _______.

• Sedimentary Rock

• Igneous Rock 

• Metamorphic Rock

• Water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2