Igneous Rocks
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
Sedimentary rocks are formed from this type of material.
What is sediment?
True or false: Melting a rock can make it into a metamorphic rock.
What is false.
When two plates push together, this kind of boundary is formed.
What is a CONVERGENT boundary?
This is the outermost layer of the Earth.
What is the CRUST?
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
This is the way sedimentary rocks can be formed that involves intense pressure acting upon the materials.
What is compaction?
HOW METAMORPHIC ROCKS ARE MADE
What is HEAT AND PRESSURE?
When two plates are moving apart from one another, this type of boundary is formed.
What is a DIVERGENT boundary?
This is the deepest layer of the Earth, ranging to 1,800 miles.
What is the MANTLE?
WHAT IGNEOUS ROCKS ARE MADE OF
What is COOLED MAGMA OR LAVA
This is the form of making a sedimentary rock that involves water mixing with minerals to form a kind of gluey substance to hold the new rock together.
What is cementation?
In the rock cycle, this type of rock is usually turns into metamorphic rock due to heat and pressure.
What is SEDIMENTARY rock?
When two plates are sliding past one another, this type of boundary is formed.
What is a TRANSFORM boundary?
What is the OUTER CORE?
This is a common igneous rock that cools inside the Earth. It is also called an INTRUSIVE igneous rock.
What is Granite?
What are three major sedimentary rocks we've talked about in class?
What is coal, limestone, and sandstone?
These three metamorphic rocks are very common and we've gone over them in class.
What is gneiss, slate, and marble?
Earthquakes happen on this kind of boundary. One major example is the San Andreas Fault.
What is a TRANSFORMATION boundary?
What are two ways humans hurt the environment?
What is logging/mining and pollution/littering?
This type of igneous rock is the most common, and it covers pretty much the entire ocean floor.
What is basalt?
What can we find in sedimentary rock (mainly limestone) that helps us learn about organisms from the past?
What are fossils?
The melting of metamorphic rocks turns into this.
What is magma?
Mountains form on land while deep ocean trenches form in the ocean when this type of boundary is formed.
What is a CONVERGENT boundary?
What is the process called when rocks and minerals are moved from one place to another?
What is deposition?