Vocabulary
Subduction happens at _______________ boundaries.
What is convergent?
Rock is made up of little pieces of this.
What is sediment?
Magma is made of what
What is melted rock?
Can all rocks turn into any type of rock?
What is yes?
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?
Rock ____________ and then hardens.
What is cools / cooling?
How is metamorphic rock created?
what is HEAT and PRESSURE
The energy that melts rock under the Earth's surface comes from this source.
What is Earth's Interior? OR
What is the mantle?
The movement of sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
When sediment is glued together.
What is cementation?
Rocks are made up of many types of ____________.
What is minerals?
Rock transformation happens very, very ___________.
What is slowly?
this causes matter to change.
what is energy?
The process of rock breaking down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
When rock gets pushed down to the Earth's interior.
What is Subduction?
There are ____________ categories of rock.
What is three?
the type rock formed from the energy from the sun
What is sedimentary rock?
Energy from ______________ ____________ leads to different types of rock.
What is different sources?
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?
Two rocks are found in two different places.
Rock A formed from small pieces of rock. Rock B formed from liquid rock in a different place. Rocks A and B formed at about the same time.
Are Rocks A and B the same or different types of rock?
What is different rocks?
Weathering happens at what layer of Earth?
What is surface? OR
What is outermost layer?
How can sedimentary or igneous rock become metamorphic rock?
What is subduction or heat and pressure?