This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
Sedimentary rock turn to igneous through _____process
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___________
Energy sources which naturally renew or replenish themselves over a period of time
Renewable Energy
Height above sea level
Elevation
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
Metamorphic rocks are created by _______ and __________
Heat and pressure
What is sediments?
Things, materials and substances that are NOT naturally found in the environment
Synthetic resources
A 2- dimensional representation of a 3- dimensional landform
Topographic Map
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
What are strata?
Layers in a sedimentary rock
metamorphic rock with bands or layers
What is foliated?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
Plants, animals, water, rocks, minerals, soil, wind
Natural resource
Sea level is measured at
Zero
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
__________and _________ are how sedimentary rocks are formed
Weathering and erosion
Gneiss, Schist, Marble are all 3 examples of what rock?
Metamorphic
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
Not naturally renewed or replenished on a human timescale
Nonrenewable resources
The distance between contour lines that represent the difference in elevation of points
Contour Intervals
Volcanic glass.
What is obsidian?
What is Conglomerate
What is marble?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
Lines that connect areas of the same elevation that form a closed circle
Contour Lines
Difference between highest elevation point and lowest elevation point
Relief