The Ultimate Geology Packet Review Game

This is the hottest layer of the Earth

This layer is made up of melted minerals.

Which type of rock is formed from weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementing?

How many layers of the Earth are there?

Who first proposed the theory of Continental Drift?

Melted minerals found underneath Earth's surface.

This layer is made up of solid metals.

The transfer of energy by waves or rays.

What is the process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces?

This type of crust is made up mostly of granite.

How many tectonic plates is the crust broken into?

What is the process that squeezes sediments together?

What occurs when plates move, collide, and rub together?

Which type of rock is formed from heat and pressure?

Which type of rock is formed from the cooling and hardening of magma or lava?

Wegener's hypthosis was rejected because he did not know a force or cause.

The crust that makes up the continents.

Alfred Wegener noticed fossils of plants and animals matched up across oceans.

Melted minerals found on Earth's surface.

What process "glues" sediments of rock together?

The crust under the ocean.

The transfer of heat from one particle of matter to another.

What are small pieces of rock called?

This layer of the Earth has convection currents.

What is the process that moves rocks to a new place?

Which type of rock is formed from weathering, erosion, and deposition?

What is the theory that the continents were once super-continent and slowly drifted apart?

The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid. 

This is the outermost layer of the Earth.

This type of crust is made up of mostly basalt.