Vocabulary
What is sediment?
Rock is made up of little pieces of this.
What is sediment?
Rock is made of this substance.
What is magma?
This kind of rock is made from these substances.
What is igneous or sedimentary rock?
The energy for weathering comes from this source.
What is the sun?
Hot liquid rock under the Earth's surface.
What is Magma?
When sediment is compacted and buried.
What is cementation?
This process has to happen to the magma for rock to form.
What is cooling?
This kind of rock requires two things to form.
What are heat and pressure?
The energy that melts rock under the Earth's surface comes from this source.
What is the core? (interior of the earth)
The movement of sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
When sediment is glued together.
What is cementation?
Igneous rocks are so diverse in appearance because of this reason.
What is how long they take to cool? (fast or slow) or What is where they are formed? (extrinsic vs intrinsic)
This rock often has ribbons of color because of this happened during formation.
What is folded (or swirled)?
What is equilibrium?
The process of rock breaking down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
This kind of rock often has these patterns.
What are layers?
This kind of igneous rock looks like black glass.
What is obsidian?
This kind of rock can become other forms of rock through this process.
What is weathering?
Energy always transfers in this direction.
What is hotter to colder?
The process of rock being pushed up by plate motion.
What is uplift?
These remains of living things are only found in sedimentary rocks.
What are fossils?
This kind of igneous rock is very light and rough.
What is pumice?
This rock gets its name because of the process it undergoes.
What is change?
The difference between diamonds and coal is this.