Question	Answer
Middle layer of Earth	Mantle
Thickest Layer of Earth	Mantle
Top part of the mantle and the crust above it.	Lithosphere
Center and hottest layer of Earth	Core
Topmost, very thin layer of Earth	Crust
Process of placing sediment in a new location	Deposition
Process of moving sediment from one place to another	Erosion
Process in which soil, sand, and sediment are formed	Weathering
Rigid block of crust and upper-mantle rock	Plate
Opening in the crust through which lava flows	Volcano
Places where pieces of the crust move	Fault
Hot, soft rock from the lower mantle	Magma
Shaking of ground from energy release in the crust	Earthquake
Remains or traces of past life found in the crust	Fossils
Fast Changes to Earth's Surface	Volcano, Earthquake, and Tsunami
Slow Changes to Earth's Surface	waves, weather, shifts in land, weathering, erosion, and deposition
a natural non living , solid material that has particles in a repeating pattern	mineral
made up of one or more minerals	rock
forms when rock pieces are depostied and squeezed and stuck together	sedimentary rock
the repeating processes that change rocks from one type to another over time	rock cycle
rock changed by heat and pressure	metamorphic rock
magma cools and hardens to form this type of rock	igneous rock
the color of the powder left behind when you rub a mineral on a white porcelain plate	streak
a mineral property that describes the way light reflects from the mineral's surface	luster
a mineral's ability to resist being scratched is its	hardness
the layer of the soil that contains many minerals	Topsoil
Processes that together form dunes, valleys and deltas	Erosion and Deposition
What does the location of different fossils in different layers of a rock tell the scientist.	The Relative Age of a fossil
scale for measuring hardness of minerals	Mohs' Hardness Scale

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