This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
Sedimentary rock that have been cemented by this process
Lithification
Metamorphic rocks often form at the boundaries of ____ _____ due to immense pressure and convection under the crust.
What are tectonic plates?
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What is sedimentary rocks.
What is the planet 2nd closet to the sun
What is Venus?
For those about to rock, we salute you
Who is ACDC?
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks?
heat and pressure
What is the hardest type of rock classification
Metamorphic
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks break apart due to weathering and eroding they become_________________
What is sediments?
Which is more dense oceanic or continental crust
oceanic
What type of rock would make for the best foundation?
Metamorphic
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
What rock is youngest in a sedimentary stack
top
What causes the foliations or stripes in metamorphic rock?
Density differences
The processes that turn all rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
The amount of matter in a given volume
What is density?
fossils are found in these rocks
sedimentary
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
This type of sedimentary rocks form when dead plants and animal remains accumulate and then cemented together?
fossils
Limestone is the parent rock of this metamorphic rock.
What is marble?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
Plate boundary that is separating
What is divergent?
The hottest layer of earth
Inner core
Volcanic glass.
What is obsidian?
This material is the most important material used to form crystals
Water
This metamorphic rock made from shale
What is slate?
When metamorphic and intrusive igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
A subduction zone is an example of what type of boundary?
Convergent
What is the name of the volcanoes that line the Pacific ocean
Ring of fire