Rock Cycle Processes
The breakdown of rock at Earth’s surface is called this.
What is weathering?
This glassy igneous rock lacks crystals.
What is obsidian?
Liquid water changing to vapor is called this.
What is evaporation?
Plants remove carbon from the atmosphere during this process.
What is photosynthesis?
Water flowing over land into streams is called this.
What is runoff?
The cooling of magma produces this general type of rock.
What is igneous?
This sedimentary rock fizzes in acid due to calcite.
What is a limestone?
Ice changing directly to vapor is called this.
What is sublimation?
Plant material that stores carbon deep underground for long periods of time in the form of coal, oil, or natural gas.
What are fossil fuels?
Igneous rock that is both felsic and intrusive.
What is granite?
Pressure causes this type of texture in metamorphic rocks.
What is foliated?
This clastic sedimentary rock has the smallest particle size.
What is shale?
Out of condensation, evaporation, and freezing, only this type of phase change is endothermic.
What is evaporation?
Living organisms release carbon dioxide to the atmosphere through this process
What is respiration?
This type of precipitation is formed by deposition.
What is snow?
The name of the process by which minerals in a rock are dissolved by water, creating one or more new substances.
What is chemical weathering?
This igneous rock has a vesicular texture, but does not float in water.
What is scoria?
Latent heat is energy involved without changing this property.
What is temperature?
The largest carbon reservoir is this.
What is the oceans?
Ocean acidification occurs because CO₂ forms this acid.
What is carbonic acid?
Loose sediment turning into rock is called this two-step process.
What is compaction and cementation?
The parent rock of this metamorphic rock is sandstone.
What is quartzite?
Hurricanes intensify due to energy from this phase change.
What is condensation?
Limestone stores carbon primarily in the form of this mineral.
What is calcium carbonate?
This term describes permeable underground rock storing water.
What is an aquifer?