This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
A type of rock made from bits of other rocks.
What is sedimentary?
Metamorphic rocks often form at the boundaries of plate tectonics due to __________ and ___________ on the crust.
What are heat and pressure?
When sediments undergo compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What is sedimentary rocks.
The 3rd planet from the sun
What is Earth?
The first step in the Scientific Method
What is make an observation or ask a question?
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
Mrs. Lemer's favorite metamorphic rock
What is gneiss?
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks undergo weathering they become_________________
What is sediments?
The approximate age of our planet
What is 4.5-4.6 Billion years old?
The variable in an experiment that is changed
What is the independent variable?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
Layers in a sedimentary rock.
What are strata?
The wavy layers inside metamorphic rock
What are foliations?
The 2 processes that turn magma into igneous rocks
What are cooling and solidifying?
The temperature of the surface of the sun in fehrenheit
What is 10,000F?
The variable in an experiment that's the result of a change
What is the dependent variable?
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
This type of sedimentary rock formed when organic plant remains accumulate and then compact and cement together?
What is Bituminous Coal?
Limestone is the parent rock of this metamorphic rock.
What is marble?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
The number of bones in the human body
What is 206?
An explanation that has been tested many times and is supported by a large body of evidence
What is a Theory?
Volcanic glass.
What is obsidian?
This type of sedimentary rock is from evaporated solutions
What is an evaporite?
Roofing material that is sometimes made of metamorphic rock
What are shingles?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma or lava?
New space telescope launched on Christmas in 2021
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
A description of phenomena that are universally accepted as true and often expressed mathematically
What is a Law?