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.
There are _____________tectonic plates
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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 final 2 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?
The inner core of the earth is made of what material?
What is solid iron?
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?
________________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 erosion?
A resin fossil is when living things get trapped in what material? (Think of Jurassic Park)
What is tree sap?
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 metamorphism can be found in large areas, such as mountain ranges?
What is regional metamorphism?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
A youngest rocks are laid on the ________
What is the top?
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?
What is the difference between a body and trace fossil? (think back to 3rd grade)
What is a trace fossil does not have parts of the living thing, a body fossil contains actual bones or teeth?
The theory that all rocks are just broken down and made into new rocks is known as what cycle?
What is the rock cycle?