The Bell Game: Ch. 7 Review
What is the process by which one rock type changes into another called?
This type of rock forms when molten material cools and hardens.
This type of rock forms when particles of other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together.
This type of rock is formed when an existing rock is changed by heat, pressure or chemical reactions.
Fossils are found in only one rock type. Which?
Explain why fossils are not found in igneous rock?
Explain why there are no fossils in metamorphic rock.
Which rock type is pictured below?
Which rock type is pictured below?
Which rock type is pictured below?
Which rock type is picture below?
The age of a rock compared to the ages of other rocks is called its _________ age.
The _______ age of a rock is the number of years since the rock formed.
True or False? The relative age of a rock provides us with the rock’s actual age.
What is the name of the Law which states that in horizontal sedimentary rock layers, each layer is younger than the layers below it?
Intrusions and extrusions are examples of what type of rock?
Lava that hardens on the surface is called an __________.
Magma that cools and hardens into a mass on rock is called an _______________.
True or False: An intrusion is always older than the rock layers around and beneath it.
A break or crack in rock is called a __________.
Name one way that rock can be changed into sediments.
Which rock layer pictured below is the oldest?
Name a rock layer that is younger that rock layer Q.
Which is older? The fault or rock layer A?
Which is younger? The fault or rock layer Q.