Vocabulary
The process of sediment being glued together.
What is cementation?
The rock type formed when magma cools and becomes solid.
What is igneous rock?
Hot molten rock below the surface of Earth.
What is magma?
One of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer.
What are plates?
The ability to make things move or change.
What is energy?
The movement of sediment from one place to another, often caused by wind or flowing water.
What is erosion?
The rock type formed when heat or pressure deep underground changes existing rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
Small pieces of rock.
What is sediment?
The place where two plates meet.
What is plate boundary?
Weathering and erosion are caused by this energy source.
What is energy from the sun?
The process of sediment being buried and pressed together.
What is compaction?
The rock type formed when sediment is pressed and glued together.
What is sedimentary rock?
Sediments are formed by what process?
What is weathering?
The type of plate boundary that moves towards each other.
What is Convergent?
This is formed when rock is exposed to energy and melted.
What is magma?
The process of rock breaking down into smaller pieces due to wind or moving water.
What is weathering?
A naturally occurring shiny black volcanic glass formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth.
What is obsidian?
Igneous rock is formed when this is cooled and crystallized BELOW the surface of the earth?
What is magma.
The process by which rock material moves under Earth's outer layer and into the mantle due to plate motion.
What is subduction?
Sediment forms when any type of rock is weathered, a process driven by this energy source.
What is energy from the sun.
A region of rock that formed together as a single rock type.
What is rock formation?
A type of sedimentary rock composed of rounded pebbles and gravel cemented together in a matrix of finer-grained sand, silt, or clay.
What is Conglomerate rock?
Igneous rock is formed when this is cooled and crystallized ON the surface of the earth?
What is lava?
The process by which all the rock formations of a region are pushed up due to plate motion.
What is Uplift?
Magma forms when any type of rock is melted, a process driven by this energy source.
What is the Earth's interior?