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What are rocks that form when chemicals dissolve in water and minerals crystallize out of the solution? | chemical sedimentary rocks |
What happens when rock layers push up at an angle without bending? | tilting |
Name the scientists who studies fossils to see what life on earth was like millions of years ago. | paleontologist |
What types of rocks form when magma reaches the earth's surface, becomes lava, and cools quickly? | extrustive rocks |
What are the physcial remains of a plant or an animal preserved in rock or in the earth's crust? | fossils |
What is made up of particles of rock, sand, soil, and plant and animal remains? | sediments |
What do you call a scientist who studies the earth's history? | geologist |
What type of metamorphic rocks contains minerals that line up in flat layers or bands under heat and pressure? | foliated metamorphic rocks |
What is a bond to from natural glue? | cement |
What means, "pushup"? | uplift |
What is a sold found in nature that has specific form, structure, and features? | mineral |
What is a substance that is made up of only one kind of atom? | element |
What is a rock that forms when sediment compacts or cements in layers on the earth's surface without heat or pressure? | sedimentary rock |
What is it called when magma squeezes into cracks, cools, and hardens? | intrusion |