Ignorant Igneous
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?
metamorphic rocks can be made from ____________, _______________, or _______________________ rocks.
What is sedimentary, metamorphic or igneous.
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What is sedimentary rocks.
What is subduction?
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The final 2 processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
The theory that all rocks are just broken down and made into new rocks is known as what cycle.
What is the rock cycle.
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________
What is sediments?
the inner core of the earth is
solid iron?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
What is the difference between weathering, erosion and deposition?
what is, weathering breaks rock down, erosion carries it away and deposition drops the sediment off?
________________is the movement of minerals into layers or bands on a metamorphic rock?
What is foliation?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
Hot Spots form what geological activity?
What is Volcanoes?
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
This type of sedimentary rocks form when dead plants from millions of years ago mineralizes. We use it to heat homes
What is coal or organic sedimentary rock?
The study of rocks, their history and the processes that form and change them.
What is geology?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
A youngest rocks are laid on the ________
What is the top
This type of igneous rock texture is due to gas bubbles getting trapped when the lava cools
What is vesticular
What type of rock does compacted silt form
What is Siltstone
Shale is the parent rock of this metamorphic rock.
What is slate?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
What is the difference between a body and trace fossil
A trace fossil does not have parts of the living thing, a body fossil contains actual bones or teeth