This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
Sedimentary rock made from bits of other rocks.
What is clastic?
Metamorphic rocks often form at the boundaries of ____ _____ due to immense pressure on the crust.
What are tectonic plates?
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What is sedimentary rocks.
2nd planet from the sun
What is Venus?
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
Name 2 ways in which minerals can form
Organic processes
Water evaporation from a solution
Cooling of magma or lava
What is sediments?
A solid fossil fuel that forms from plant remains
What coal
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
Layers in a sedimentary rock.
What are strata?
Fracture
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
The amount of matter in a given volume
What is density?
This type of cycle occurs mainly in the mantle and this allows for rock to heat and rise in the mantle
Convection currents/convection cycle
Name the three layers of the Earth
What is core, mantle, crust
Name the two types of crust
What is continental and oceanic
Limestone is the parent rock of this metamorphic rock.
What is marble?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
Plate boundary that is separating
What is divergent?
Coal, oil, natural gas
Volcanic glass
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What is obsidian?
Name the two types of core
What is inner and outer
This metamorphic rock is the parent of shale
What is schist
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
What is the term that describes what happens when rock breaks at the top of a mountain
What is weathering