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4th 6 Weeks COT Study Guide

1. What force causes mountain building?

Your Answer:

Correct Answer: Uplift

2. As a volcano erupts, lava flows onto the crust of the earth. This molten rock
cools, and forms layers of igneous rocks. Each eruption can lead to a new
layer of igneous rock being formed. As discussed in class, when someone
keeps a collection of newspapers or magazines they usually stack them up as
they receive a new newspaper or magazine. Each newspaper or magazine
represents a layer just like the layers of igneous rock formed by a volcano.
Looking at the diagram below, where would the oldest layer be found?

----------A. Your Answer:

-----------B.

-----------C.

-----------D. Correct Answer: E

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A

What type of rock would be formed at location A?

Your answer:

Correct answer: Metamorphic Rock

What type of rock would your find at the base of this volcano?

Your answer:

Correct answer: Igneous Rock

 What type of rock would be represented in the photo?

Your answer:

Correct answer: Sedimentary Rock

4. Obsidian is an Igneous rock and Gneiss is a metamorphic rock. Both these

rocks have the same chemical makeup, but why are they classified as
different types of rock?

Your answer:

Correct answer: Because of the different ways they are formed.

5. Label the layers of the Earth:

 Lithosphere Asthenosphere

Mesosphere

Outer Core

Inner Core

Word Bank

Lithosphere Asthenosphere Mesosphere

Inner Core Outer Core

6. All 3 types of rock can go through weathering, erosion, and

deposition. Through these processes sediment is made,
moved, and dropped. What type of rock will eventually be
made after this process?

Your answer:

Correct answer: Sedimentary Rock

7. If a scientist wanted to watch an igneous rock turn into a
metamorphic rock, where would they see this happen?

Your answer:

Correct answer: Deep underground in the Earth

8. What happens to create and make mountains?

Your answer:

Correct answer: Uplift

9. Where would you most likely find a volcano forming?

Your answer:

Correct answer: Where two plates meet

10. What are some things that scientist have used as evidence to
show that Pangaea or a super continent at one time existed?

Your answer:

Correct answer: Similar animal fossils