movement within the Earth that causes rocks inside Earth to be moved to Earth's surface.
What is uplift? (:
100
The continual process through which rock forms from old material.
What is the rock cycle?
100
what are the textures of igneous rock?
What is coarse grained and fine grained?
100
How are clastic sedimentary rocks formed, and where do you find them?
What is fragments of rock cemented together,and undergroun or underwater, any where with pressure?
100
What is a newmonic for the rock cycle?
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200
the process in which water, ice, wind, and heat break down rock.
What is weathering.
200
What are the steps of the rocks cycle?
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, cementation and compaction, metamorphism, melting, cooling solidification?
200
What are the textures of metamorphic rock/
What is foliated and non foliated?
200
How are chemical sed. rocks formed, and where do you find them?
What is from solutions of dissolved minerals and water, and in shallow bodies of water.
200
What 3 things affect the formation of magma?
What is pressure, temperature, composition?
300
rock formed from the cooling and solidification of magma beneath Earth's surface.
What is intrusive igneous rock.
300
How can sedimentary rock turn into metamorphic rock?
What is Heat and pressure?
300
What are the 2 factors that contribute to the formation of igneous rock?
What is temperature and pressure?
300
How are organic sedimentary rocks formed, and where can you find them?
What is from fossils of animals that once lived in the ocean, and on the ocean floor?
300
What is the texture of metamorphic rock in which the mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands?
What is foliated?
400
rock that forms as a result of volcanic activity at or near the Earth's surface.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
400
How can metamorphic rock turn into magma? how does magma turn into igneous rock?
What is melting and cooling?
400
What is the difference between contact metamorphism and regional metamorphism?
What is contact metamorphism occurs near bodies of magma, but regional metamorphism occurs over thousands of cubic kilometers deep within Earth's crust.
400
what are the textures of sedimentary rock?
What is coarse grained, medium grained, and fine grained?
400
What is the texture in metamorphic rock in which the mineral grains aren't arranged in planes or bands?
What is nonfoliated?
500
A naturally ocurring solid mixture.
What is rock?
500
How can igneous rock turn into sedimentary rock?
What is weathering and erosion?
500
What are the steps in the rock cycle?
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, cementation and compaction, metamorphism, melting, cooling, and solidification?