EARTH SCIENCE QUESTIONS

What is the top layer of Earth’s surface that supports plant growth?

This is the process by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction or cementation.

These are rock fragments that have been transported from their places of origin.

This is a type of sedimentary rock that is formed from chemicals dissolved in water.

• Chemical sedimentary rock

• Organic sedimentary rock

• Clastic sedimentary rock

• Lava

This is a natural process acting on rocks at the physical disintegration or chemical decomposition to Earth materials at or near Earth’s surface.

The physical addition of transported sediments to a landform.

It is a fluid or semifluid material erupted onto Earth’s surface

It is hot molten rock that has erupted below or within Earth’s crust from which lava and other igneous rocks are formed by cooling.

These rocks are usually extruded during volcanic eruptions on the surface and are formed when cooling lava rapidly precipitates.

• Extrusive igneous rock

• limestone

• lava

• lithification

This type of rock is formed when preexisting or parent rocks are altered by heat, pressure, and the chemical activity of fluids.

• Igneous rock

• sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock

• Soil