Fun Rock Facts
The name of a famous ancient circular rock monument in England.
What is Stonehenge?
Igneous rock is formed _____________.
What is hardening lava? or What is hardened lava?
Igneous rock is transformed into metamorphic rock through the application of ____________ & _______________.
What is the application of heat and/or pressure?
Tensional stress is _______________.
What is the stress that pulls two rocks apart?
Physical actions, such as wind, or water freezing and cracking a rock
What is physical weathering?
The only rock that floats.
What is pumice?
This type of rock is made from layers of sediment that are compacted and cemented together.
What is Sedimentary rock?
When metamorphic rock melts and then cools it becomes ______________ and then ______________ __________.
What is becomes magma and then becomes igneous rock?
Compressional stress is _________________.
What is the stress that pushes two rocks together?
The three main types of weathering are:
What are physical, chemical and biological?
The famous Great Pyramid of Giza is made from this sedimentary rock.
What is limestone?
Metamorphic rock is formed by ____________.
What is heat and/or pressure?
Compaction is __________________.
What is layers of sediment pressed together over time?
Shear stress occurs when ____________.
What is a process involving 2 rocks, where one rock is being pushed in one direction and another rock is being pulled in the opposite direction?
When living organisms break rocks it is called _____________.
What is biological weathering?
The study of rocks is _____________.
What is geology?
This feature indicates sedimentary rock.
What are layers?
The rock cycle will end _________.
What is never?
At transform plate boundaries, where plates are moving side by side there is sideways or _______ _________.
What is shear stress?
This famous U.S. landmark was primarily formed by the weathering and erosion of rock by the Colorado River over millions of years.
What is the Grand Canyon?
Molten rock below the earth's surface is _____________.
What is magma?
The three main categories of rocks are:
What is igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic?
Any rock can turn into another type rock but this can take ______________________ of years.
What is millions?
A simple break that does not involve significant movement of the rock on either side is _______________.
What is a fracture?
What is ice wedging?