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Random rock stuff
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These are fomed when pieces of earth are broken up through the processes of weathering and erosion.
What are sediments?
100
Besides cooling, magma also must do this to become an igneous rock.
What is crystallize?
100
When magma cools down, it turns into this phase of matter.
What is a solid.
100
This wrestler goes by the stage name The Rock.
Who is Dwayne Johnson?
100
This rock is formed when magma cools into a solid.
What is igneous rock?
200
These rocks are caused be compression.
What are sedimentary rocks?
200
Erosion is the first step in the formation of these types of rocks?
What is sedimentary?
200
After weathering, come these two processes, which can ultimately change a metamporphic rock into a sedimentary rock.
What are erosion and depostion?
200
If you look at the Grand Canyon, you can spot multiple of these types of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
The continuous recycling of rocks is knows as this.
What is the rock cycle?
300
This type of rock is formed when lava cools and crystallizes.
What is igneous rock?
300
These processes start with the same letter, and are necessary for sedimentary rocks to form.
What are compaction and cementation?
300
The words used to describe different minerals being pressed together.
What is compression?
300
This movie starred the Rock and Jack Black, as they travel to a magical world based on a video game.
What is Jumanji?
300
This is the process that helps minerals STICK together.
What is cementation?
400
When rock is pushed toward Earth's core, it can melt, turning it into this semi liguid material.
What is magma?
400
These two things must be extreme for metamorphic rock to form.
What is heat and pressure?
400
Liquids, such as flowing magma, must do this to solidify.
What is cool?
400
This is the wearing down of earth over time, which can lead to the formation of sedimentary rock.
What is weathering?
500
Heat and pressure can cause big changes in rocks, turning them into this type.
What is metamorphic?
500
This "zone", may help with the formation of metamorphic rocks by forcing them toward the earths core.
What is a subduction zone?
500
If it is so hot that a rock melts, then it becomes this substance.
What is magma?
500
These types of rocks can become sediments.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?