This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
What is a unique feature of some sedimentary rocks
They can be:
Fossils, fuel/natural resources, minerals/beauty, building/historical artifacts
Metamorphic rocks often form at the boundaries of ____ _____ due to immense pressure on the crust.
What are tectonic plates?
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What is sedimentary rocks.
3rd planet from the sun
What is Earth?
For those about to rock, we salute you
Who is ACDC?
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?
ANy Rocks can be turned into any of the three types of rocks
given enough time, heat, and/or pressure
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________
What is sediments?
What is the unifying theory in geology, that suggests that the Earth has separate regions of its crust that move on the convections waves of the mantle, collide and diverge?
What is Plate Tectonics
Detroit Rock City
Who is KISS?
A low density igneous rock, with bubbles like styrofoam- floats
Pumice
Where is most sediment deposited?
At the mouths of rivers
depositing to the sea
metamorphic rock is formed from what two forces
What is heat and pressure
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and erosion
The amount of matter in a given volume M/V
What is density?
Rock you like a Hurricane.
Who are the Scorpions?
Igneous rocks have larger crystals if they cool for a longer or shorter time
longer
Igneous rocks that cool faster have larger or smaller crystals
smaller
Limestone is the parent rock of this metamorphic rock.
What is marble?
What is the force that created the grand canyon?
Moving Water
Plate boundary that is separating
What is divergent?
Rock the Casbah
Who is the Clash?
Volcanic glass.
What is obsidian?
Type of sedimentary rock forms chemically and can most often be seen in cave ceilings and floors
What are stalactites and/or stalagmites
This metamorphic rock is often used in pool tables.
It is never early...
What is slate?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks melt they turn into__________
What is magma/lava
When plates come together
convergent?
We Will Rock You
Queen