It's Igneous
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
tiny pieces of rock, sand, shells, etc. is called what
What is sediment?
metamorphic rocks can be made from ____________, _______________, or _______________________ rocks.
What is sedimentary, metamorphic or igneous.
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What is sedimentary rocks.
What sport did the Iowa Hawkeyes play last night?
Women's basketball
Where do most earthquakes occur?
What is where tectonic plates meet?
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
The lines/layers of a metamorphic rock look different than the lines of a sedimentary rock because...
What is metamorphic rocks have wavy layers and alternate from dark to light?
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________
What is sediments?
What college league/conference is Iowa a part of?
-SEC, Big 10, Big 12, or Pac-12?
What is the Big 10?
The different landforms of the Earth are caused by?
What are movements of the tectonic plates, erosion and volcanoes?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
How do sediments form?
What is weathering and/or erosion? (or when existing rocks get broken apart by the environment)
What layer of a landform is typically the OLDEST?
What is the bottom layer?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and erosion?
Who is Caitlin Clark?
The oldest rocks on earth are found in which layers?
What are the bottom ones?
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
Where do sedimentary rocks typically form (near what natural feature)?
What is water?
What type of dating is when you don't know the actual age of the rock, but you know it is younger than the rocks around it?
What is relative dating?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
What place did the Iowa Women's Basketball team get in the NCAA Basketball Tournament this year?
What is second place?
The study of rocks, their history and the processes that form and change them is called?
What is geology?
This type of igneous rock texture can have holes due to gas bubbles getting trapped when the lava cools
What is extrusive?
What is the sedimentary rock called that looks like lots of pebbles are stuck together?
What is a conglomerate?
What two processes must occur to make metamorphic rock?
What is heat and pressure?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
Who is the head coach of the Iowa Women's Basketball Team?
Who is Lisa Bluder?
The theory that all rocks are just broken down and made into new rocks is known as what cycle?
What is the rock cycle?