Rock Cycle
A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals
What is a rock?
What is sediment?
Name of liquid rock on the surface of the Earth
What is lava?
When magma cools and hardens.
Time of full rotation of Earth.
What is 24 hours (more specifically, 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds)
Processes by which new rocks form from older mock material
What is the rock cycle?
Water, wind, ice, or gravity move sediment over the Earth's surface
What is erosion?
How does metamorphic rock form?
Heat and pressure cause a change in the chemical composition of rock
What causes difference in texture in igneous rocks?
How fast magma cools
Earth is the __________ planet from the sun
3rd
Another name for liquid rock
What is magma?
Name of process when sediment stops moving
What is deposition?
What is foliated metamorphic rock?
The two main composition groups of igneous rocks
What are felsic and mafic rocks?
The rate of speed at which Earth moves around the sun.
Water, wind, ice, and heat break down rock into smaller fragments
What is weathering?
Rock layers formed from deposition
What is strata?
What is 150 degrees Celsius - 1000 degrees Celsius
If magma cools quickly, the rock has a ___________-grained texture.
Fine
The state with the largest earthquake in the USA
What is Alaska?
True or False: Rocks follow a single path through the rock cycle.
False
The process where new layers are deposited on old layers, and the weight pushes down on the old layers.
What is compaction?
Intrusive igneous rock forms _____________ the Earth's surface.
Coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth
-128.6 degrees Fahrenheit