Rock Types
Rocks can form in different ways, this causes them to be different _________.
What is Rock Types?
This is formed when sediment is compacted and cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock?
The process of sediment being glued together.
What is cementation?
This is what moves rock formations.
What is Plate Motion?
A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like.
What is a Cross Section?
Small pieces of rock.
What is Sediment?
This is what is formed when any type of rock is melted.
What is Magma?
The process of sediment being buried and pressed together.
What is Compaction?
This type of plate motion moves rock upwards, toward Earth's surface.
What is Uplift?
A small part that is meant to show what the whole is like.
What is a Sample?
When magma cools, it hardens to form this type of rock.
What is Igneous Rock?
Magma is formed when any type of rock is melted, a process driven by energy from this location.
What is Energy from Earth's interior?
The process of rock breaking down into smaller pieces due to wind or moving water.
What is Weathering?
This type of plate motion moves rock down, below Earth's outer layer.
What is Subduction?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is Matter?
The type of rock that is formed when sediment is pressed and glued together.
What is sedimentary rock?
Sediment forms when any type of rock is weathered, a process driven by energy from this location.
What is the Sun?
The movement of sediment from one place to another, often caused by wind or flowing water.
What is Erosion?
The place where two plates meet.
What is a Plate Boundary?
What scientists call the ability to make things move or change.
What is Energy?
The type of rock that formed when heat and pressure deep underground changes existing rock.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
Matter gets transformed by energy, but the (same or different) matter is still present.
What is the Same?
A region of rock that formed together as a single rock layer.
What is a Rock Formation?
Any rock type can transform into any other rock type because of this process.
What is Plate Motion?
One of the many different types of matter that make up rocks.
What is a Mineral?