Layers of the Earth
Type of rock that forms in STRAIGHT layers.
What is sedimentary rocks?
Weathering that involves physical breaking down rock without changing its composition.
What is physical (mechanical) weathering?
Chemical bonds of a mineral are broken down by water.
What is hydrolysis?
The breaking down of rocks?
What is weathering?
Rock that involves magma cooling slowly.
What is igneous rock?
Water seeping into a crack in a rock, freezing, and breaking the rock.
What is frost (ice) wedging?
When oxygen reacts with metal elements in rock or on other surfaces creating oxides.
What is oxidation?
Rock that is dissolved by acid rain.
What is limestone?
The layer that we live on.
What is the crust.
The process that explains how rocks change from one state to another.
What is The Rock Cycle?
The act of scraping or rubbing against rocks.
What is abrasion?
The addition of carbonic acid used to break down rocks.
What is carbonation?
Changes the color of metal-containing objects to a brown/orange color.
What is rust?
Rock that can change from one type of rock to another
What is metamorphic rock?
Rocks expand and break as pressure is released from unloading (change in pressure).
What is exfoliation?
The breaking down of rock that changes the rocks chemical composition.
What is chemical weathering?
Rock that has squiggly lines .
What is metamorphic rocks?
Pieces of broken down rocks.
What are sediments?
Animals disturb rock and soil through burrowing and tree root grow causes rock to
What is biological/animal activity?
Plant that releases acid and weathers down rock.
What is lichen?
The moving of sediment from one location to another.
What is erosion?