A Rock
Is A Rock
IS A ROCK
The Rock Cycle
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100
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
100
tiny pieces of rock, sand, shells, etc. is called what
What is sediment?
100
Metamorphic rocks are formed due to _______ and _______.
Heat and Pressure
100
When sediments undergo compacting and cementation processes, they become which type of rock.
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Sedimentary rocks.
100
Two major contributing factors to sediment
Weathering and Erosion
200
The physical properties of slow-cooling Igneous rocks have...
Slow cooling and many colors.
200
Examples of Sediments
Broken down pieces of rock,
Sand
Soil
200
True of False- Metamorphic rocks can change in size and shape.
True- due to intense heat and pressure
200
Undergoing weathering and erosion, will show which type of rock?
Sedimentary
200
Difference between magma and lava.
Magma when is underground, lava after errupts.
300
This type of rock is found near volcanoes or fissures.
Igneous
300
Sedimentary rocks are formed by...
Compaction & Cementation
300
Minerals can be added or substracted due to transformation. True or False
True
300
The rock cycle is continuous. True or false.
True.
300
The only type of rock that contains fossils.
Sedimentary
400
Fast cooling Igneous rocks have these physical properties...
Glassy and have holes
400
Which types of rock can become sedimentary rock?
ALL (Sedimentary, Igneous, Metamorphic)
400
Difference between time it takes to form igneous and sedimentary rocks.
Igneous rocks take from days to thousands of years to form, sedimentary rocks take millions of years.
400
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
400
Give three properties you would use to describe a rock.
Answers may vary (colour, hardness, size of crystals, layered/non-layered, banded/not-banded, air bubbles, glassy, shiny/dull)
500
What processes help form Igneous rocks?
Cooling & Hardening
500
Weathering (breaking down of rocks in sediments) can be_____, _______and_____ . Give two types of weathering.
Mechanical (due to atmospheric processes such as rain, wind, freeze/thaw).
Chemical, due to chemical reactions between rocks and acid rain, water or different types of rocks.
Biological (plants, animals).
500
These rocks have ribbon-like layers and may have crystals.
Metamorphic
500
True or false: Any type of rock can become any other type of rock.
True
500
Igneous rocks are formed from cooled__________
Magma