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Frozen lumps of gas and rock are known as comets. Comets heat up when passing close to the Sun, leaving a visible tail sometimes able to be seen from Earth.
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What are lumps that have compositions different from the main body of rock called?
Concretions
Why do cracks in a rock get larger water has frozen in them?
it gets larger because it absorves water
What common rock structure can trap oil and natural gas under it?
Shale rock / Roof rock
The structure of a comet is considered to be like a large or a mass of frozen ice and rock?
Dirty Snowball
What is made out of dust and rock particles mixed with frozen water methane and ammonia?
A Comet <3
A lump of ice rock frozen gas and dust that orbits the sun?
A lump of ice, rock, frozen gas, and dust that orbits the sun is called an asteroid. This can be studied about in Astronomy.
What are frozen balls of ice gas and rock in space called?
comet
What is abrasion and plucking?
Plucking is when melt water from a glacier freezes around lumps of cracked and broken rock. When the ice moves downhill, rock is plucked from the back wall. Abrasion is when rock frozen to the base and the back of the glacier scrapes the bed rock.
What are the Travelling lumps or rock ice and gas that originated in the oort cloud called?
A male koala that that was dropped as a baby and turned wild. It then flew in a rocket ship into space and was released It now traveling in disguise of lumps of rock and ice in the oort cloud.
What is the mass of frozen rock and gas that has a tail pointing away from the sun is called?
It is a comet.
Are asteroids composed of rock and frozen gas?
Not really, you're thinking of comets, asteroids are composed of rock, metal, or a combination of both.
What is the name of large lumps of rock that orbit the sun?
Large lumps of rock that orbit the sun could refer to planets, asteroids, meteors.
How much of Pluto is oxygen?
There is no oxygen and there might be frozen water and rock and nitrogen or just methane gas
Which of the gas giants are made of frozen gas?
which of the gas giants are made of frozen gas
Do elephants eat lumps of volcanic rock?
Certain species of elephants have been known to climb to volcanoes and consume lumps of volcanic rock. This volcanic rock is rich in sodium, important for the elephants diet.
What are lumps that have compositions different from the main body of rock?
Concretions
Small lumps of rock orbitting sun are called what?
metoreorite
