Sedimentary Stories
These are the small fragments like sand and pebbles formed after weathering.
What are sediments?
This is the name for molten rock found beneath the Earth's surface.
What is magma?
This process uses intense heat and pressure to change one rock type into another.
What is metamorphism?
This is the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces by rain, ice, or wind.
What is weathering?
Magma becomes intrusive igneous rock through this process.
What is crystallization?
This process involves the compacting and cementation of sediments into solid rock.
What is lithification?
These igneous rocks form on the Earth's surface after a volcanic eruption.
What are extrusive igneous rocks?
If a metamorphic rock gets too hot and turns into a liquid, this process has occured.
What is melting?
Name two rock types that go through weathering?
What is sedimentary, metamorphic, and/or extrusive igneous?
Any rock type can eventually become magma if this happens.
What is melting?
This the process where sediments are dropped off or settled in a new location.
What is deposition?
These igneous rocks form and cool slowly underneath the Earth's surface.
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
True or false: Sedimentary rocks can turn directly into metamorphic rocks.
What is true?
This term describes rocks being pushed up to the surface where they can be reached by weather.
What is uplift?
Sediments become sedimentary rock through this process.
What is lithification? (compaction and cementation)
This process moves sediments from one place to another via wind, water, or ice.
What is transportation?
This is the specific process where magma cools and hardens into solid rock.
What is solidification or crystallization?
This must happen to a rock buried deep underground before it can be weathered on the surface.
What is uplift and exposure?
This is the stage that happens immediately after transportation but before lithification.
What is deposition?
This is the only rock type (according to the diagram) that forms directly from solidification above ground.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
These types of rocks can undergo "uplift and exposure" to become sediments again.
What are sedimentary rocks?
Name one thing an extrusive igneous rock can turn into next.
Sediments via weathering
or
Metamorphic rock via metamorphism
Name the two factors required for metamorphism to occur.
What are heat and pressure?
This is why the diagram shows weathering at the top.
What is because it happens on the Earth's surface/ atmosphere?
According to the diagram, if an intrusive igneous rock undergoes metamorphism and then melts, what does it become?
What is magma?