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What are the three types of rocks?
a) sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic
b) sediments, magma, pressure
c) divergent, convergent, transform
d) crust, mantle, core

Which type of rock is formed by cooling lava or magma?
a) sedimentary
b) igneous
c) metamorphic
d) sediment

What type of rock is formed by extreme heat and pressure?
a) sedimentary
b) magma
c) metamorphic
d) igneous

What is the thickest layer of the Earth?
a) crust
b) mantle
c) outer core
d) inner core

What are sediments?
a) broken pieces of rocks
b) melted rocks in liquid form
c) pieces of marshmallows
d) what happens to kids that don't study

What is a sedimentary rock?
a) Rocks formed from diamonds.
b) Rocks formed from cooling lava.
c) Rocks formed from squeezing lava.
d) Rocks formed from squeezing together sediment.

Which rock is mostly likely to have fossils inside?
a) metamorphic rock
b) igneous rocks
c) sedimentary rocks
d) magma

What is magma?
a) rocks that are cooled down until it hardens
b) rocks that are heated until it melts
c) rocks that are collected
d) rocks that are destroyed

Soil is mostly made up of _____________
a) dead animals
b) aliens
c) broken rocks
d) dead plants

What is weathering?
a) moving pieces of rocks
b) the actions that break down rocks
c) when there is rain
d) when there is snow

Which seismic wave will arrive first in an earthquake?
a) secondary wave
b) primary wave
c) surface wave
d)

The type of seismic wave that arrives first and move by pushing and pulling forward and backward
a) S waves
b) P waves
c) Surface Waves
d) Love Waves

What type of plate boundary has plates sliding past each other?
a) transform boundary
b) divergent boundary
c) convergent boundary
d)

What is the coolest layer of the Earth?
a) crust
b) mantle
c) outer core
d) inner core

If a seismic wave destroys a house which most likely caused it?
a) secondary wave
b) surface wave
c) primary wave
d)

Which shows the order of earthquake waves arriving first to last?
a) surface, secondary, primary
b) secondary, surface, primary
c) primary, surface, secondary
d) primary, secondary, surface

Earthquakes are only created from which plate boundary?
a) convergent
b) transform
c) divergent
d) all of the plate boundaries

Which plate boundary creates volcanoes?
a) divergent
b) convergent
c) transform
d)

What decides if a plate gets pushed down or not?
a) thickness
b) density
c) size
d) smell

As you go deeper into the earth what happens to the density?
a) gets more dense
b) gets less dense
c) stays the same
d) what's density again?

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