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___________
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?
This rock occurs when granite is metamorphosed.
It's not mean
What is gneiss
What is sediments?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
Where is most sediment deposited?
At the mouth 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
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
This type of sedimentary rocks form when dead plant remains accumulate, compact and cement together?
What is coal
Limestone is the parent rock of this metamorphic rock.
What is marble?
What is the force that created the grand canyon?
Water
Volcanic glass
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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 go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma/lava