Rocks
When a pieces of rock are carried away by running water, wind, or ice.
What is erosion?
When a rock on Earth's surface is broken into smaller pieces, forming loos material.
What is weathering?
When solid rock turns into molten, or liquid rock.
What is melting?
When magma and lava cool and harden into solid rock.
What is crystallization?
When layers of sediment are compacted and cemented together over time to form rock.
What is sedimentation?
When temperature and pressure cause some minerals in the rock to break down and other minerals to form.
What is metamorphism?
When rock changes shape due to compression or tension in Earth's crust.
What is deformation?
Molten rock that is underground.
What is magma?
Molten rock that breaks through Earth's surface.
What is lava?
Rock that forms when magma or lava crystallize.
What is igneous rock?
Rock that forms as a result of sedimentation.
What is sedimentary rock?
Rock that forms through metamorphism.
What is metamorphic rock?
The center of the earth.
What is the inner core?
Solids made of minerals and rock pieces.
What is rock?
Opening in the Earth's crust.
What is a volcano?
Formed when bits of rock and sediment build up over time.
What is sedimentary?
Building blocks of rocks.
What are minerals?
Rocks changed by heat and/or pressure.
What is mortamorphic?
Hot, liquid rock below the Earth's surface.
What is magma?
The outer layer of Earth.
What is crust?
Grain of a mineral with a smooth side.
What is a crystal?
Rocks that are formed when magma cools and hardens.
What is igneous rock?
Magma that has erupted on the Earth's surface.
What is lava?
Found in rocks, imprint of animal or plant from long ago.
What is a fossil?
Gneiss is this type of rock.
What is metamorphic?