1. Science Sprint #7 Solid and Changing Earth AND Rocks
What is the only completely melted layer of Earth?
Science Sprint #7
Solid and Changing
Earth AND Rocks
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 4A
What is the process of moving sediment from one place to another?
What is the center-most layer of the Earth made of solid iron and nickel?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 1A
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 5A
What is the thin outer layer of Earth?
Why is the inner-core solid even though it is the hottest layer of Earth?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 2A
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 6A
What is the partially melted layer of Earth beneath the crust?
What is the name for rigid blocks of crust and upper-mantle rock?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 3A
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2. It is under great pressure.
outer core
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 4B
inner core
erosion
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 5B
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 1B
It is under great pressure.
crust
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 6B
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plates
mantle
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3. What type of boundary occurs when two plates push together?
Where do volcanoes typically form?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 8A
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 12A
What type of boundary occurs when two plates pull apart?
What is the theory of how Earth’s continents move over its surface?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 9A
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What is the name of the supercontinent that is theorized to have existed 225 million years ago and contained all of Earth’s land?
What type of boundary occurs when two plates slide past one another?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 10A
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Liquid rock in Earth’s mantle is called _____, but it is called _____ when it reaches Earth’s surface.
What is the process of breaking rock into silt, sand, clay, and other tiny sediments?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 11A
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4. along fault lines (plate boundaries) convergent boundary
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continental drift
divergent boundary
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 13B
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Pangea
(also spelled Pangaea)
transform boundary (also called sliding or strike-slip boundary)
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 14B
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weathering
magma (in mantle) lava (at surface)
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 15B
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5. What causes plate movement?
What type of rock forms from sediments that are squeezed and cemented together?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 16A
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What are some agents (causes) of weathering and erosion?
What type of rock is changed by heat and pressure?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 17A
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What is the slow, never-ending process of rock changes?
What is a material made up of one or more minerals?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 18A
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What type of rock forms from cooled lava or magma?
What type of rock contains fossils?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 19A
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6. heat energy within the Earth
sedimentary rock
heat energy within the Earth
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 20B
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Weathering: water, plants freezing, and wind
Erosion: water, glaciers, wind
metamorphic rock
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 21B
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rock cycle
rock
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sedimentary rock
igneous rock
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Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 19B

7. Describe what a cross-section of Earth would look like.
What do scientists study to learn about temperatures inside the Earth’s crust?
Describe what a cross-section of Earth would look like.
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 24A
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 28A
What do geologists study to learn about what organisms were like in the past?
What causes rocks in a stream to be smooth?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 25A
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Given a sample of rock, what layer would have the oldest fossils?
Which layer of Earth is the thinnest?
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What causes earthquakes?
Give an example of a way in which Earth can change suddenly.
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 27A
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8. landslides, earthquakes,
volcanoes
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 28B
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fossils
weathering
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crust
the bottom layer
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landslides, earthquakes,
volcanoes
movements in the Earth
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 31B
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9. What is the process of depositing materials into a new location?
Describe and label the rock cycle.
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 32A
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Rocks have properties that can be _______, ______, and _________.
What are two other names for transform boundaries?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 33A
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What are used to help aid in the process of classifying rocks?
What are three agents of weathering and erosion?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 34A
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 38A
How old is the Earth?
How can ice weather a rock?
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 35A
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10. Observed, tested, described Strike-slip or sliding boundaries
deposition
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 36B
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 32B
Observed, tested, described
Strike-slip or sliding boundaries
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Wind, water, ice
Classification keys
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 38B
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 34B
By seeping into cracks and freezing; frozen water expands, therefore cracking and weathering a rock
Approximately 4.6 billion years old
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 39B
Science Sprint #7: Earth AND Rocks 35B