Question

5. How are sedimentary rocks made?

6. How are metamorphic rocks made?
7. Which two layers of the Earth are made of rock?
8. What are the names of the other two layers of the Earth, and what are they made of? Write the following layers of the earth in order from most dense to least dense: atmosphere, crust, inner core, mantle, outer core, water.

Answer 1

5. Sedimentary rocks are made up of pieces (clasts) of pre-existing rocks. 6. Metamorphic rocks form when rocks are subjected to high heat, high pressure, hot mineral-rich fluids or, more commonly, some combination of these factors. 7. Crust, and the Mantle. 8. The inner-core and the outer-core.