Rocks
Rock formed by cooled magma.
What is Igneous Rock?
Sedimentary Rock made up of small pieces of other rocks.
The process that breaks down and moves rock particles.
What is Erosion?
A Mechanical Weathering process that involves Ice freezing and enlarging cracks in rocks and sometimes even splitting them open.
What is Frost Wedging?
The type of rock mostly found on the surface of the Earth.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
Rocks formed underground by heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
Sedimentary rock that is made up of bits of minerals.
What is Chemical Sedimentary Rock?
Is one of the 5 types of erosion.
What is Water, Wind, Glacier, Sea, or Soil
What is Wind Erosion?
Layers of sediment compacted over time.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
Metamorphic Rock on the side of a mountain that is constantly hit by wind and rain will become...?
What is sediment?
A type of Metamorphic Rock that forms on layers.
What is Foliated Rock?
A washout crevasse left behind from soil erosion.
Black Igneous rock which, through the process of water and wind erosion, has been broken down to very small pieces.
What is Black Sand?
What is Granite?
An example of extrusive Igneous rock.
What is pumice? Obsidian?
The process through which sand, and other sediment, is moved far down the shoreline.
What is Long Shore Drift?
A huge mass of slowly flowing compacted snow that causes erosion.
What is a glacier?
The law that states that matter is never truly destroyed but merely changes form.
What is the Conservation of Matter?