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.
Natural disasters happen at plate boundaries. Name two
What are earthquakes, volcanoes, rift valley, mountains
Volcanoes always form in
groups or clusters
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 inner core of the earth is
solid iron?
The different landforms of the Earth are caused by?
What are movements inside the Earth, erosion and volcanoes?
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?
parent rock are these things that make what kind of new rock
What are rocks or minerals that are pushed together to make a new metamorphic rock?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
When two layers of rock are compared against each other, it is called this.
What is relative dating?
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?
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?
Earths layers have more of this property as you go further down.
What is density?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
A youngest rocks are laid on the ________
What is the top
The study of rocks, their history and the processes that form and change them.
What is geology?
This type of igneous rock texture is due to gas bubbles getting trapped when the lava cools
What is vesticular
What is ice wedging and what is it responsible for?
What is when water expands and weathers rock?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
solid, semi-solid, liquid, solid are phases of Earth's....
What are layers?
The theory that all rocks are just broken down and made into new rocks is known as the
What is the rock cycle?