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Match Each Description with the Correct Term

Question 39

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Match each description with the correct term:

Premises:
a layer of loose material covering solid rock
liquid rock that originates in the mantle and moves upward into the Earth’s crust
contain mineral fragments derived from any of the three major rock groups that accumulate and lithify
when upward moving magma spreads horizontally along a zone of rock weakness and pushes upward in such a way that the surface rocks are warped upward in a dome-like feature and the magma cools
liquid rock that is flowing across the Earth’s surface
Responses:
magma
lava
regolith
laccolith
clastics

Correct Answer:

a layer of loose material covering solid rock
liquid rock that originates in the mantle and moves upward into the Earth’s crust
contain mineral fragments derived from any of the three major rock groups that accumulate and lithify
when upward moving magma spreads horizontally along a zone of rock weakness and pushes upward in such a way that the surface rocks are warped upward in a dome-like feature and the magma cools
liquid rock that is flowing across the Earth’s surface
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