The Rock Cycle
What shows how nature recycles earth materials?
What is the term for liquid rock?
What is the term for liquid rock within the earth?
What is the term for liquid rock at or near the earth's surface?
What is the rock family associated with molten rock which has cooled and solidified?
The term fire rocks refers to which rock family?
What process acts to break the rock?
What process wears away and removes the rock?
What process drops the rock material?
What is the term for loose rock debris?
What is the term which means "turned into rock"?
What two processes result in lithification?
What rock family results from rock material being lithified?
What effect does heat, pressure, and/or chemical action have on rock?
What does metamorphism mean?
True or False: Metamorphism involves melting of rock material.
Which rock family is produced as a result of heat, pressure, and/or chemical action without melting?
To which rock family will the rock belong if metamorphic rock is heated and melted and then cooled and solidified?
To which rock family will the rock belong if metamorphic rock is weathered, eroded, and deposited, and the material is lithified?
To which rock family will the rock belong if the metamorphic rock undergoes heat, pressure, and/or chemical action and is changed?
To which rock family will the rock belong if an igneous rock is heated and melted then cooled and solidified?
To which rock family will the rock belong if an igneous rock is exposed to heat, pressure, and/or chemical action and changed?
To which rock family will the rock belong if a sedimentary rock is heated and melted then cooled and solidified?
To which rock family will the rock belong if a sedimentary rock is exposed to weathering, erosion, and deposition and then lithified?
True or False: Each rock family forms by different processes.
What shows the way in which earth materials are recycled over and over again through geologic time?
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