The Rock Cycle
The rock cycle goes on for this amount of time
What is eternity?
True or false: Igneous rock can become sedimentary and metamorphic rock.
What is true?
What force is used to form sedimentary rocks?
What is gravity?
This rock can be found deep under Earth's surface where tectonic plates meet.
What is metamorphic rock?
What name is rock given when it breaks into smaller pieces?
What is sediment?
The rock cycle involves these three rocks
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?
These are the processes that cause igneous rocks to form.
What are melting and cooling?
These are the places sedimentary rocks form.
What is on land or under the ocean?
What is needed to transform previously existing rock into new rock?
What is heat and pressure?
This is the main factor that decides how rocks are classified.
What is the rock's formation?
What melts and cools to cause metamorphic rocks to change into igneous rocks?
What is magma?
This is the name of the type of igneous rock that is formed when magma cools BELOW the surface.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
These are the two ways sedimentary rocks form.
What are clastic and chemically?
Metamorphism makes a rock less or more dense.
What is more dense?
This is the name of the process of water, wind, ice, and organisms breaking down rock
What is mechanical weathering?
What factors transform igneous rock into metamorphic rock?
What are heat and pressure?
This type of igneous rock forms by lava cooling on the surface.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
In a clastic sedimentary rock, this fills in space between loose sediment particles.
What are minerals?
This is a common type of metamorphic rock often used for the building of columns or flooring.
What is marble?
This is the process of sediment being moved from one place to another.
What is erosion?
These two factors transform metamorphic and/or igneous rock into sedimentary rock.
What are weathering and erosion?
This is one of the most popular igneous rocks, commonly used in construction of houses, countertops, etc.
What is granite?
This precipitates out from a liquid in chemical sedimentary rocks.
What are crystals?
What is through contact metamorphism and regional metamorphism?
This is the process of sediment being dropped in an area.
What is deposition?