Processes
What happens if...?
What is...?
On the diagram...
100
What process creates metamorphic rocks?
Compaction and cementation
100
What happens if an igneous rock goes below the surface to intense heat and pressure?
It would turn into a metamorphic rock
100
What is compaction?
Pressure
100
F on the diagram is...?
Compaction and cementation
200
What process creates igneous rocks?
Cooling
200
What happens if a metamorphic rock comes up to the surface of the Earth and cools?
It would turn into to igneous rock
200
What is cementation?
Gluing
200
G on the diagram is?
Sedimentary rock
300
What process creates metamorphic rocks?
When an existing rock is changed by heat and pressure
300
What happens if a sedimentary rock gets broken down by weathering?
The pieces get broken down to sediments
300
What is cooling?
Lava or magma cooling to form an igneous rock
300
H on the diagram?
Heat and pressure
400
What process creates sediments?
Weathering
400
What happens if sediments get compacted and cemented together?
It turns into a sedimentary rock
400
What is heat and pressure?
Deep down in the Earth rocks turn into metamorphic rocks from intense heat and pressure
400
E on the diagram?
Sediments