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earth sciene
vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| igneous rock | rock that forms when magma cools and hardens. |
| magma | melted rock inside the Earth's crust. |
| lava | magma that reaches the Earth's surface. |
| granite | a very hard, coarse-grained, gray to pink, intrusive igneous rock, comeposed mainly of feldspar, quartz, mica, and hornblade. |
| extrusive rock | lava that hardens on the Earth's surface. |
| intrusive rock | magma that hardens within the Earth's crust. |
| lithoshpere | the cooler part of the Earth, that includes the crust and the upper mantle. |
| asthenoshpere | a part of partially melted rock in the uper mantle. |