Common Assessment #2 Review

3. What is magma that reaches the surface?
7. What is the rigid layer of Earth in the mantle that the plates “ride” on?
8. What name did Alfred Wegener give the ancient supercontinent?
10. What is the state of matter of the outer core?
11. What process breaks rocks into smaller pieces?
12. What element is second most common in the crust?
15. What is the semi rigid part of the middle mantle?
19. What type of plate boundary collides?
20. What type of rock changes without melting?
21. What element is most common in the crust?
22. What type of plate boundary slides past?
24. What ocean contains the Ring of Fire?
26. What theory did Wegener propose?
27. What are the broken pieces of Earth's crust called?
29. What process moves sediment from one place to another?
31. This is when minerals grow between sediments to glue them together to form sedimentary rocks.
32. What do plate boundaries often cause?
34. What type of igneous rock forms on surface?
35. What do oceanic plates do when meeting continental plates?
36. What type of current causes mantle movement?

1. This is how tightly packed molecules are together.
2. What is the largest layer of Earth?
4. What form along plate boundaries?
5. What type of eruptions provide insight into Earth's interior?
6. What rock type composes continental crust?
9. What type of spreading occurs at mid ocean ridges?
10. What process turns sediment into sedimentary rock?
13. What is the hottest layer of Earth?
14. What process occurs when sediments settle?
16. What is the state of matter of the inner core?
17. What type of waves help study Earth's layers?
18. What type of igneous rock forms underground?
23. What is molten rock beneath the surface?
25. What type of plate boundary moves apart?
26. This is when sediments are squeezed together to start forming a sedimentary rock.
28. What rock type composes oceanic crust?
30. What force makes the inner core solid?
33. This is the thinnest layer of the Earth.