WED
What is the breaking down of rocks due to water, wind, ice and gravity?
Weathering
True or False: Any type of rock can turn into any other type of rock when acted upon by the correct process.
True
What do we call broken down pieces of rocks?
Sediment
What is the movement of sediment from one place to another by water, wind, ice and gravity?
Erosion
What type of rock are fossils typically found?
Sedimentary rock
What processes take place to turn rocks into sediment?
Weathering, Erosion, Deposition
What is Deposition?
Depositing sediment into a new area
What type of rock in the result of intense heat melting rock into magma and then cooling?
Igneous rock
What process would need to take place to turn metamorphic rock into igneous rock?
Melting and cooling
Ice wedging, Plant roots, animals, abrasion and thermal energy are all types of what kind of weathering?
Mechanical weathering
What kind of rock would be formed where the red rectangle is?
Igneous rock
What process would need to take place to turn sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock?
Heat and pressure
What are 2 examples of chemical weathering?
Carbonic acid causing sinkholes, Oxygen reacting with iron and copper in rocks
What belongs in the blank space?
Compaction and Cementation
What processes would need to take place to turn igneous rock into sedimentary rock?
Weathering, Erosion, Deposition and then compacting and cementing