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How ROCKS are FORMED
EXAMPLES of Different ROCK TYPES
Rock Cycle Processes
Tectonic Plates
Miscellaneous
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This rock or substance is composed of sediments.
What is sedimentary rock?
100
Sandstone is an example of what type of rock?
What is an example of a sedimentary rock?
100
What is the definition of deposition?
What is the process that LAYS DOWN/DEPOSITS/PUTS TO REST different minerals/sediments/etc.
100
What does uplift cause?
What is mountains? (Uplift: a process where two tectonic plates collide, which raises the regions of the Earth's crust to higher elevations.)
100
These pieces are broken down pieces of rock that have went through the processes of weathering, erosion, and deposition
What is sediment?
200
This rock or substance is formed from processes such as weathering and erosion.
What is sediment?
200
Limestone is an example of what type of rock?
What is an example of a sedimentary rock?
200
What is the definition of weathering?
What is the breaking down of rock (by environmental processes such as water, wind, ice, and changes in temperature)?
200
What is the definition of subsidence?
What happens during the SINKING of regions of the Earth's crust to LOWER elevations? (For example when one plate is SUBducted under the other plate.)
200
Where would you look to find igneous rock?
What is a volcano or near a volcano?
300
This rock or substance is formed from pressure, heat (temperature), pressure AND heat, and/or chemical changes.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
Granite is an example of what type of rock?
What is an example of an igneous rock?
300
What is the definition of erosion?
What is the process that MOVES sediment to one place to another (while the rock/sediment is also breaking down)?
300
What is the prefix for the words under or below?
What is the prefix SUB?
300
How was the Grand Canyon most likely formed (BE SPECIFIC)?
Erosion BY WATER
400
This rock or substance is formed by COOLING of lava or magma.
What is igneous rock?
400
Gneiss (pronounced nice) is an example of what type of rock?
What is an example of a metamorphic rock?
400
Explain how a rock goes through the processes of melting and cooling.
A rock must melt (where it turns into magma--liquid) and then cool (where it turns into an igneous rock--solid).
400
What is a common result when two tectonic plates collide while one is subducted under the other?
What is a volcano or volcanic formation?
400
What rock can form into a metamorphic rock?
What is BOTH ROCK TYPES: sedimentary AND igneous. (:
500
This is an igneous rock formed UNDERNEATH Earth's surface. OR This is an igneous rock formed ABOVE Earth's surface.
What is intrusive igneous rock (underneath Earth's surface) OR extrusive igneous rock (above Earth's surface).
500
Magma is an example of what type of rock?
TRICK QUESTION--Once magma cools it turns into a rock but it ISN'T REALLY A ROCK! (:
500
What is the definition of a rock being cemented?
What process happens to sediments when they are turning into a sedimentary rock by compacting together with water and then the water evaporates.
500
What is a set of deep cracks that forms between two tectonic plates that are pulling apart from each other?
What is a rift zone? Will also accept mid-ocean ridge (underwater).
500
Name the FOUR processes a rock can go through to become a metamorphic rock.
1. heat (temperature) 2. pressure 3. heat (temperature) AND pressure 4. chemical changes/fluids