Rock cycle & plates

The rock in Earth's crust is always changing.

• true

• false

-Forces deep inside Earth and at the surface build, destroy, and change the rocks in the crust.

• false

• true

is the series of processes that occur on Earth's surface and in the crust and mantle

(a)  

the process of ............................. breaks down granite into sediment that gets carried away and dropped by the wind.

• weathering

• deposition

• erosion

-The granite in Granite Mountain formed millions of years ago below Earth's surface as ..................... cooled.

• lava

• magma

-the igneous rock sandstone of Granite Mountain could become the sedimentary rock granite.

• true

• false

(a)   the main ingredient in quartz, would replace the calcite cement.

.................................... crust is the dense type of crust that is found at the bottom of the ocean ..

• Continental

• Oceanic

Continental crust is ............................. than oceanic crust and is almost always thicker.

• more dense

• less dense

The tectonic plates move because they are part of convection currents in .........................

• the mantle

• the crust

• the core