Vocabulary
A region of rock that formed together as a single rock type.
What is a rock formation?
Igneous rocks are made from this material.
What is magma?
This type of rock is formed from magma cooling.
What is igneous rock?
___________ gets transformed by energy, but the same ____________ is still present.
What is matter?
This was the first step in the process that led to the rock in the Great Plains being made from rock in the Rocky Mountains.
What is rock melting in Earth's mantle to form magma?
The process by which all the rock formations of a region are pushed up due to plate motion.
What is uplift?
Sedimentary rocks are made from this material.
What is sediment?
This type of rock is formed from sediments that were compacted and cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock?
Rocks can form in __________ ways. This causes them to be ___________ types.
What is different?
We learned that rocks from the _____________ formed first.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
Sedimentary rocks are made from this process.
What is compacting and cementing?
This type of rock is formed in the mantle when existing rock is subjected to extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
_____________ moves rock formations.
What is plate motion?
This tectonic plate is uplifted causing the Rocky Mountains to form.
What is the North American plate?
The ability to make things move or change.
What is energy?
Igneous rocks are formed by this process.
What is cooling?
The type of energy required to weather rocks.
What is energy from the Sun?
Any type of _______ can transform into any type of _______ because of ______________________.
What are rock and plate motion?
This plate was subducted, causing the Rocky Mountains to form.
What is the Pacific Plate?
The process by which rock material moves under Earth's outer layer and into the mantle due to plate motion.
What is subduction?
Metamorphic rocks are formed from this material and process.
What is existing rock under extreme heat and pressure?
The type of energy required to melt rocks and move tectonic plates.
What is energy from Earth's interior?
__________ and ___________ can expose rock formations to different energy sources, which can transform them.
What is uplift and subduction?
This process carried the sediments from the Rocky Mountains to the Great Plains.
What is erosion?