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?
define metamorphic rock.
What is the rock type formed when heat or pressure deep underground changes existing 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 squished and buried.
What is compaction?
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 the materials in it?
This rock comes from this material.
What is igneous and/ or sedimentary rock?
this creates matter to change.
what is energy?
The process of rock breaking down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
When sedimentary rock goes down to the Earth's interior.
What is Subduction?
This kind of igneous rock looks like black glass.
What is obsidian?
This kind of rock is found in this location.
What is deep underground, under mountains, above earth's interior?
Explain how energy from the sun creates weathering.
What is evaporates water then creates condensation (water cycle)?
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?
Name two types of igneous rocks from the simulation.
What is Gabbro, mantle, Granite, basalt, Rhyolite, Obsidian, pumice?
Name one type of metamorphic rock?
What is Schist, Gnesis, Amphibolite ?
The difference between diamonds and coal is this.