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.
Types of geological activity created at divergent plate boundaries.
What are volcanos, earthquakes and mid ocean trenches?
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 lines/layers of a metamorphic rock look different than the lines of a sedimentary rock because
What is metamorphic rocks have wavy layers due to heat.
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________
What is sediments?
The study of rocks, their history and the processes that form and change them.
What is geology?
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?
Types of geological activities that happen because of transform boundaries.
Earthquakes and tsunamis.
__________ 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?
what are parent rocks.
rocks or minerals that are pushed together to make a new metamorphic rock?
_________ 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
The different landforms of the Earth are caused by?
What are tectonic plates? OR, What are convection currents?
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?
The two types of volcanos are _______ and ________.
What are composite and shield volcanos?