Rock Stresses
Stress that pulls rocks apart
What is tensional stress?
Actions such as wind, or water freezing and cracking a rock.
What is physical weathering?
Engineers know about rock strength to
What is building safe bridges, roads, tunnels, etc.?
Process of igneous rock becoming metamorphic rock.
What is the application of heat and or pressure?
Formation of Igneous Rock
What is hardened/ cooled lava?
Stress that pushes rocks together to form mountains.
What is compressional stress?
The three types of weathering.
Engineer responsible for correctly building bridges.
What are civil or structural engineers?
Rock type formed when metamorphic rock melts and then cools.
What is igneous rock?
Rock that is made from layers of sediment that are compacted and cemented together.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
This occurs between two rocks when one is being pushed in one direction and the other is being pulled in the opposite direction.
What is shear stress?
Type of weathering that occurs when trees grow.
What is biological weathering?
Engineer focused on rock strength
What is a geological engineer?
Compaction occurs when
Formation of Metamorphic Rock
What is an existing rock changed by heat and/ or pressure?
Type of weathering that doesn't cause rock stress.
What is chemical weathering?
Underestimating this about a rock could cause injury or death.
What is rock strength?
Rocks break apart over time
What is weathering?
Rock formed by compaction of sediments
What is a sedimentary rock?
A rock with a hardness of 10.
What is a diamond?