This type of rock is formed by gravity pressing fragments of other rocks and minerals together as they settle on land or under the ocean over a long period of time; small pieces of rock are compacted and cemented together.
What are Sedimentary Rocks?
100
Never ending; happening over and over again; continuous; no beginning or ending.
What is a Cycle?
100
All rocks are made from _____.
What are Minerals?
100
The breaking down of rock into smaller pieces by the action of wind, rain and temperature change.
What is Weathering?
200
The theory that Earth's crust is made up of individual plates that gradually move in relation to each other.
What is the Plate Tectonics Theory?
200
One of the major types of rock that is created from previously existing rock by the action of intense heat and pressure; existing rocks are baked and squeezed by pressure.
What are Metamorphic Rocks?
200
This type of boundary is where tectonic plates come TOWARDS eachother.
What are Convergent Boundaries?
200
What determines whether a rock is sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic?
How it is formed.
200
The process during which rocks are formed, change, wear down, and are formed again over long periods of time.
What is the Rock Cycle?
300
The layer of solid rock between Earth's crust and core.
What is the Mantle?
300
When rocks are broken down into small pieces, like sand and gravel, the pieces are known as _______.
What are Sediments?
300
This type of boundary is where tectonic plates move AWAY from each other.
What are Divergent Boundaries?
300
Scientists that study the history, the processes, and the material of our planet are called ____.
What are Geologists?
300
The process in which wind, water, ice, or other things move pieces of rock and soil over Earth's surface.
What is Erosion?
400
The transfer of heat through a fluid.
What is Convection?
400
Igneous rocks can be formed from which type(s) of rock(s)?
Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary
400
The movement of the tectonic plates contribute to the rock cycle in 3 main ways. Name 2 out of the 3.
1) Push rocks deep within the Earth
2) Push Rocks up to Earth's surface.
3) Produce volcanoes.
400
The law of _______ states that although some sedimentary rock looks wavy or vertical, that all sediments were originally laid down horizontally.
What is the Law of Original Horizontality?
400
The layer of rock that forms Earth's surface.
What is the Crust?
500
An amount of rock or soil that has been laid down in an area.
What is a Deposit?
500
The process by which rocks are broken down into smaller pieces is called ______.
What is Weathering?
500
Explain, in detail, how 3 of the 8 processes contribute to the rock cycle.