Sedimentary rock forms when what collects and hardens into new rock?
What is sediment
100
Metamorphic means to?
What is change.
100
The belt formed by many volcanoes that rim the Pacific Ocean?
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
A gently sloping mountain formed by repeated quiet eruptions?
What is a shield volcano?
200
Liquid rock found inside the earth is called what?
What is magma
200
Sediment stacks up in layers that are ______________ together.
What is cemented.
200
Metamorphic rock is formed by heat and what?
What is pressure.
200
The area under the volcano pipe where a pocket of magma builds up?
What is the magma chamber?
300
A tall mountain formed of alternating layers of ash and lava?
What are composite volcanoes?
300
This landform from magma (could be the magma chamber) is a mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cools inside the crust?
What is a batholith?
300
Sedimentary rock often forms at the bottom of _____________ as it is depostited by rivers and streams.
What is lakes or seas (deltas).
300
Metamorphic rock can be formed only where on the Earth? Inside/outside/either
What is inside?
300
A bowl shaped area around the central vent of the volcano?
What is the crater?
400
High, level area formed by repeated explosive eruptions with high viscosity lava flows?
What is a cinder cone volcano?
400
High, level areas made of many layers of lava that erupt from cracks in the ground
What is a lava plateau?
400
Sediment is usually formed by ____________ and erosion.
What is weathering.
400
Where does the pressure come from that causes metamorphic rock to form?
What is the weight of the rock above it.
400
These are smaller openings where magma leaves the volcano, typically found on the side of the mountains?
What are vents?
500
What are five features formed by magma?
What is a volcanic neck, dike, sill, batholithe, and dome mountain?
500
When magma has a low silica content (like that in Hawaii), flows easily and erupts quietly it produces two types of lava?
Which one is the fast moving hot lava? Hint: looks like rope
Which one is slower-moving and that is cooler?
What is pahoehoe? (fast moving)
What is aa ( slower - moving)
500
Sedimentary rocks that have the shape of once living things.
What are fossils.
500
Metamorphic rock goes through what process to change to Sedimentary Rock?
What is surfacing and then being exposed to weathering and erosion?
500
A type of volcanic eruption that has magma, high in silica with trapped gasses building up pressure until it explodes with incredible force creating a pyroclastic flow, or an eruption that hurls out ash cinders and magma bombs?