Compaction and Cementation
This process occurs when layers of sediment are weighted down by the heavy layers above them, pushing air and water out.
What is compaction?
This is the process by which water, wind, water, or ice drops sediment in a new location.
What is deposition?
This is the specific temperature at which a solid substance turns into a liquid.
What is the melting point?
This substance is known as magma when it is underground and lava once it erupts and begins to cool on the surface.
What is molten rock?
This process involves the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces, called sediment, without moving them.
What is weathering?
During this process, dissolved minerals crystallize and act like glue to a stick sediment particles together.
What is cementation?
While weathering breaks rock down and erosion moves it this refers to the specific material that is being deposited.
What is a particle?
This term describe the underground molten rock that forms when solid rock metals beneath the Earth's Surface.
What is magma?
When lava cools almost instantly on the Earth's surface, it forms this volcanic glass that has no visible crystals.
What is obsidian?
This is the process where wind, water, ice, or gravity moves weathered rock and soil from one location to another.
What is erosion?
Together, compaction and cementation are the two main steps in forming this specific type of rock.
What is a sedimentary rock?
Deposition is the first step in creating a sedimentary rock.
What is a sedimentary rock?
It is made when magma or lava cools.
What is Igneous rock?
Because it cools very slowly deep underground, this common intrusive rock has large, easy-to-see mineral grains.
What is granite?
This specific type of weathering occurs when acid rain reacts with minerals like limestone to dissolve the rock.
What is chemical weathering?
As sediments are compacted, this physical property of the material increases because the particles are packed more tightly together.
What is density?
True or False Deposition comes before compaction and cementation.
What is true?
This term describes the direct transition of a substance from solid to gas, skipping the melting liquid phase entirely.
What is sublimation
In the rock cycle, the slower the cooling process of magma, the larger these structures will grow within the rock.
What are crystals?
This is the final step in the cycle, where sediments are dropped or laid down in a new location, such as a river delta.
What is deposition?
These are the small broken pieces of broken rock, shells, or plant remains that get compacted and cemented to form new rock.
What are sediments?
Deposition only happens with sand and soil.
What is false?
Once magma breaks through to the Earth's surface during a volcanic eruption, it is called by this name.
What is lava?
This is the specific type of rock that is always formed immediately after magma or lava finishes the cooling and hardening process.
What is igneous rock?
These large, moving masses of ice act like giant sandpaper, carving out deep U-shaped valleys as they scrape across the Earth's surface.
What are glaciers?