Rocks/grab bag
Rocks are made of ____________________?
What is minerals
Sedimentary rock forms when what collects and hardens into new rock?
What is sediment
Metamorphic means to ___________________?
What is change.
The continual process by which new rock forms from old rock material is called what?
What is the rock cycle.
Rocks (and minerals) are matter. Matter is ___________________?
What is anything that has mass and takes up space
Sediment stacks up in layers that are ______________ together.
What compacted and cemented.
Metamorphic rock is formed by heat and what?
What is pressure.
What is needed for matter to change?
What is energy.
Sedimentary rock often forms at the bottom of _____________ as it is deposited by rivers and streams.
What is lakes or seas.
Metamorphic rock can only be formed where on the Earth? surface/underground/either
What is underground.
How a rock is formed determines _______________?
What is the type of rock it is.
When magma cools underground it forms this type of igneous rock.
What is INTRUSIVE igneous rock. (example= granite)
Sediment is usually formed by ____________ and erosion.
What is weathering.
Where does the pressure come from that causes metamorphic rock to form?
What is the weight of the rock above it.
Energy from these 2 sources drive processes involved in rock transformations.
What are the sun and the Earth's interior?
Lava cooling on the surface forms this type of igneous rock?
What is EXTRUSIVE igneous rock. (example= basalt)
Sedimentary rocks are the only rock that may contain _____________________?
What are fossils.
What is changed chemically (recrystallized).