Rocks

Question 1

What are the three categories of rocks?

Answer 1

Igneous rock, sedimentary rock, metaphorical rock

Question 2

What are the two kinds of rock in the igneous category?

Answer 2

Basalt rock and granite rock

Question 3

How is basalt rocks formed

Answer 3

Lava cools quickly above surface by air

Question 4

How is granite formed?

Answer 4

Magma cools slowly deep underground

Question 5

How are limestone rocks formed?

Answer 5

The remains of dead animals or plants

Question 6

What kind of crystals are found in granite rocks?

Answer 6

Mineral mica

Question 7

How do plates move?

Answer 7

Molten magma in the earths mantle moves in it circles(convection currents), this makes crustal plates crash together, pull apart and slide past each other

Question 8

What happens when plates collide?

Answer 8

At some plate boundaries the crust is destroyed, this is a destructive plate boundary, if two plates with land (continental plates) crash ogether th crust crumples upwards making fold mountains and earthquakes

Question 9

What happens when plates continuously slide past each other ?´

Answer 9

When two plates continuasly slide past each other this is called a transform plate boundary. Usually it causes small earthquakes, it an also cause a destructive earthquake