This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
Process needed to create igneous rock
melting and cooling
The process of breaking down rock into sediment
weathering
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
Process needed to create sedimentary rock
What are compaction and cementation?
The process of sediment being glued or welded together to form a rock
Cementation
What is sediments?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
Process needed to create metamorphic rock
heat and pressure
Weathering, erosion, and deposition that helps break down to form new rocks
Surface events
The first step in the processes that turns metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
__________ igneous rocks are formed underground due to the slow cooling of magma
What is intrusive?
What type of rock does the rock cycle begin with?
Any type! There is no set start because it is a cycle
Volcanic activity, molten rock, and plate movements that helps form new rocks
Subsurface events
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
This type of rock is also known as "volcanic glass" .
What is obsidian?
What type of rock are fossils found in?
sedimentary rocks
The process of sediment being squeezed together
Compaction
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?