ROCKS
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
tiny pieces of rock, sand, shells, etc. is called what
What is sediment?
Volcanic rock is black, glossy, and smooth. How did it most likely form?
What is rapidly, & on earth's surface?
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What is sedimentary rocks.
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What is Jupiter, Neptune, Terra, Vulcan
What are the three types of rocks?
What is igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic?
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
sediments are deeply buried under pressure
What is compaction?
During which part of the rock cycle does water break rocks apart?
What is weathering and erosion?
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________
What is sediments?
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What is Usain Bolt
The different landforms of the Earth are caused by?
What are movements of the tectonic plates, erosion and volcanoes?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
How do sediments form?
What is weathering and/or erosion?
How does sedimentary rock turn into metamorphic rock?
heating and pressure
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and erosion?
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The oldest rocks on earth are found in which layers?
What are the bottom ones?
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
Where do sedimentary rocks typically form? Near what natural feature?
What is water?
The freezing and thawing action of water affects a rock by
gradually breaking down the rock into smaller pieces
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
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What is 23
The study of rocks, their history and the processes that form and change them is called?
What is geology?
What type of rock contains the most fossils?
What is sedimentary rock?
when new materials stick the sediment together?
What is cementation?
What is the difference between magma and lava?
What is magma is under earths surface and lava is above earths surface.
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
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What is Pi
The theory that all rocks are just broken down and made into new rocks is known as what cycle?
What is the rock cycle?