Unit 2 Section 3 - The Rock Cycle

Question 1

Type of rock that forms when pieces of rock are broken, transported by water or ice, and then deposited hundreds or thousands of kilometers from where they formed.

Answer 1

Conglomerate

Question 2

Rounded pieces of other rock.

Answer 2

Clasts

Question 3

Natural, solid, nonliving material that makes up Earth’s crust, mantle, and core.

Answer 3

Rock

Question 4

The size,shape, and positions of the grains that make up a rock.

Answer 4

Texture

Question 5

Forms when particles of preexisting rock are transported by water, wind, or gravity and accumulate to form layers of material called sediment on Earth’s
solid surface.

Answer 5

Sedimentary rock

Question 6

Forms when other rock partially melts underground.

Answer 6

Igneous rock

Question 7

Hot fluid mixture.

Answer 7

Magma

Question 8

Forms when rock is subjected to extreme heat, extreme pressure, or both.

Answer 8

Metamorphic rock

Question 9

The three types of rock, and the processes that form rock and transform it from one type into another, are all part of?

Answer 9

The rock cycle

Question 10

Changes in pressure.

Answer 10

Heating

Question 11

Minerals in the rock break down and new minerals may form.

Answer 11

Weathering

Question 12

Running water, flowing ice, wind, and gravity move the pieces from one place to another over Earth’s surface.

Answer 12

Erosion

Question 13

Particles of rock settle out of air and water and accumulate as sediments on Earth’s surface.

Answer 13

Deposition

Question 14

The processes that produce sedimentary rock.

Answer 14

Lithification

Question 15

Rock that forms through the precipitation of minerals from water.

Answer 15

Chemical sedimentary rock.