click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
ScienceTester
This is vocab, test questions, and flash cards
Question | Answer |
---|---|
What is the process by which sediment is removed from its source, wind,water,ice, or gravity from 1 place to another? | Erosion |
What is the naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals and organic matter? | a rock |
what is texture based on? | size, shape, position |
In the rock cycle, new rock is from | old rock |
The process in which sediment moved by erosion is dropped and comes to rest is called? | Deposition |
Texture is the ___ of a rock | Quality |
What is a strata? | Layer of rock |
non-foliated | Texture of metamorphic and aren't arranged in planes or bands |
foliate | texture of metamorphic rock and are arranged in planes or bands |
Stratification | process in which sedimentary rocks are arranged in layers |
what is Extrusive igneous rock formed as a result of...? | volcanic activity near Earth's surface |
What is formed from the cooling and solidification of magma beneath the Earth's surface? | Intrusive igneous rock |
Sedimentary rocks are arranged in layers is called.. | Stratification |
what is the continual process by which new rock forms from old rock material | rock cycle |
What breaks down rock into fragments? | weathering |
Erosion removes_____ from its source | Sediment |
Deposition is...? | As sediment drops and comes to rest, sedimentary rock is formed |
Process by which rock is within the Earth's moves to the surface is | Uplift |
Metamorphic rock formation occurs when ____ and ____ are high enough to change sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock. | temperature, pressure |