Sedimentary
Sedimentary rocks turn to igneous through the process of _______________
What is melting?
Metamorphic rocks often form at the boundaries of ____ _____ due to immense pressure on the crust.
What are tectonic plates?
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What are sedimentary rocks.
Energy sources which naturally renew or replenish themselves over a period of time
Renewable Energy
Energy from inside _______ melts rock into liquid rock.
What is the Earth?
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks? _____________ and ____________
What are compaction and cementation?
Metamorphic rocks are created by _______ and __________
Heat and pressure
What is sediments?
The process in which one tectonic plate moves under another and sinks into the Earth’s mantle.
What is subduction?
The most abundant igneous rock on the oceanic crust is
What is basalt?
Energy from the ______causes rock to weather into small pieces of rock.
What is the sun?
Rocks are different _______ when they are formed in different ways
What are types?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and erosion?
Resources that are not naturally renewed or replenished on a human timescale
Nonrenewable resources
The most abundant rock type in Earth’s crust
What is igneous rock?
The process where rocks are transported from one location to another by wind and water is called _______________.
What is erosion?
_________ from different sources leads to different types of rock
What is energy?
True or False: Rocks can change from one type to another
What is true?
The geological process in which parts of the Earth’s crust are pushed upward.
What is uplift?
The most abundant igneous rock on the continental crust
What is granite?