Ignorant 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 is subduction?
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The final 2 processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
The theory that all rocks are just broken down and made into new rocks is known as
What is the rock cycle.
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________
What is sediments?
the inner core of the earth is made of
what is solid iron?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
Explain the difference between weathering, erosion and deposition?
what is, weathering breaks rock down, erosion carries it away and deposition drops the sediment off?
________________is the movement of minerals into layers or bands on a metamorphic rock?
What is foliation?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
Hot Spots form what geological activity?
What is Volcanoes?
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
This type of rock most of Florida made from?
What is limestone?
The study of rocks, their history and the processes that form and change them.
What is geology?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
The type of land feature when 2 continental plates collide
What are mountains?
The process in which sediments are turned into rock
What is Lithification?
Marble is this type of metamorphic rock
What is non-foliated?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
Hint: 2 part answer
This layer of the Earth is responsible for its magnetic field and its made of
What is the outer core and it's made of liquid nickel and iron?