| A | B |
|---|
| an upfold in rocks | anticline |
| a dense plastic layer of mantle below the lithosphere | asthenosphere |
| an immense, dome-shaped nass of intrusive igneous rock | batholith |
| the ore from which aluminum is extracted | bauxite |
| the mass of solid rock that lies beneath the regolith | bedrock |
| a sedimentary rock made of sharp-edged fragments naturally cemented together | breccia |
| sheet like silicates held together by mater | clay |
| a sedimentary rock made of pebbles and larger rounder stones cemented together by sandy material | conglomerated |
| the theory that continents have drifted around the face of the earth | continental drift |
| dense hot ball of rock and molten metal below the earth mantle | core |
| the hard outer skin of rock forming the ocean floor and the continents | crust |
| sudden shaking of the ground when stressed rocks move along a fault | earthquake |
| fracture zone where one rock mass has moved against against another | fault |
| a bend in rock layers | fold |
| the remains of an organism preserved in sedimentary rocks | fossil |
| a hollow nodule of of rock lined with crystals | geode |
| rock salt | halite |
| rock formed when molten rock cools and hardens | igneous rock |
| molten rock when it appears on the Earth's surface | lava |
| the earth's crust coupled to the rigid upper mantle | lithosphere |
| molten rock formed below the Earth's surface | magma |
| the dense hot rock layer below the earth's surface | mantle |
| sedimentary or igenous rock altered by a great heat or pressure | metamorphic rock |
| glassy volcanic rock | obsidian |
| metal rich mineral deposit | ore |
| the prehistoric super continent | pangea |
| the study of how lithosphere plates move around | plate tectonics |
| soil and broken rock covering bedrock | regolith |
| a layered sedimentary rock formed chiefly from clay | shale |
| metamorphic rock formed from shale | slate |
| downfold in the rocks creating a trough | syncline |
| a crack in a rock containing a mineral deposit | vein |
