Vocabulary
What is sediment?
Rock is made up of little pieces of this.
What is sediment?
Rock is made of this substance.
What is magma?
Can all rocks turn into any type of rock?
Yes
The energy for weathering comes from this source.
What is the sun?
Hot liquid rock under the Earth's surface.
What is Magma?
When sediment is squished and buried.
What is compaction?
This process has to happen to the magma for rock to form.
What is cooling?
How is metamorphic rock created?
what is HEAT and PRESSURE
The energy that melts rock under the Earth's surface comes from this source.
What is the core? (interior of the earth)
What is magma
The movement of sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
When sediment is glued together.
What is cementation?
Igneous rocks are so diverse in appearance because of this reason.
What is the materials in it?
FREE SPACE
WHOOOOHOO
this causes matter to change.
what is energy?
The process of rock breaking down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
When sedimentary rock goes down to the Earth's interior.
What is Subduction?
Igneous can become these type of rocks
What are sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rock?
the type rock formed from the energy from the sun
what is sedimentary
Explain how energy from the sun creates weathering.
What is weather (like rain, wind) and erosion?
The process of rock being pushed up by plate motion.
What is uplift?
These remains of living things are only found in sedimentary rocks.
What are fossils?
Name the steps of a sedimentary rock becoming igneous rock
What is melting, into magma, then cooling into igneous rock
the type rock formed from the energy from Earth's interior
what is igneous
How can sedimentary or igneous rock become metamorphic rock?
What is subduction or heat and pressure?