Vocabulary
Hot liquid rock under the Earth's surface.
What is Magma?
When sediment is buried pressed together.
What is compaction?
Igneous rock is formed when magma ______.
What is cools and hardens.
They type of rock formed from heat and pressure
what is metamorphic rock?
The energy that melts rock under the Earth's surface comes from this source.
What is Earth's Interior?
During a convergent boundary, this is when one plate goes under the other, into the mantle.
What is subduction?
Rock is made up of little pieces of this.
What is sediment?
Magma is made of what
What is melted rock?
The type of rocks that can be weathered and transformed into sediment.
The energy for weathering comes from this source.
What is the sun?
The movement of sediment from one place to another often caused by wind or flowing water.
What is erosion?
When sediment is glued together.
What is cementation?
Igneous rock is formed on the surface because of this geologic event.
What is a volcano?
Rock transformation happens very, very ___________.
What is slowly?
this causes matter to change.
what is energy?
The process of rock breaking down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The type of rock formed after compaction and cementation.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
There are __________ types of rocks. (a number)
What is three?
the type rock formed from the energy from the sun
What is sedimentary rock?
Energy from ______________ forms sediment and energy from ____________ forms magma.
What is the Sun and Earth's Interior?
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?
A rock formation made of metamorphic rock was once deep underground. This process brought the rock formation to the surface.
What is uplift?
How could materials of an igneous rock come from a sedimentary rock formed millions of years earlier?
What is when a sedimentary rock moves below Earth's surface is melted, then cooled?
How can sedimentary or igneous rock become metamorphic rock?
What is subduction or heat and pressure?