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When igneous rocks are broken into smaller pieces What is this process called?
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The controlled process by which hydrocarbons are broken down or rearranged into smaller more useful molecules is called?
Cracking
What is the process called by which food is broken down and nutrition is extracted?
The process is called metabolism.Digestion is the mechanical and chemical breaking down of food into smaller components that can be absorbed into a blood stream,
What are rocks called that formed from volcanic process?
Those would be igneous rocks. Extrusive igneous rocks.
Weathering and erosion break igneous and other types of rock into smaller pieces called what?
Sediments
What is the process called when magma transition into intrusive igneous rock?
By Magma I'm guessing you mean the molten sedimentary rocks. The process is called metamorphism.
The controlled process by which hydrocarbons are broken down or rearranged into smaller more useful molecules is called?
Cracking
The process by which rocks are broken down into smaller fragments by the atmosphere and other factors in the environment is called?
weathering
Process of breaking down food?
The process of breaking down food is called digestion.
What is the chemical reactions that allow large molecules to be broken apart into smaller molecules by adding water called?
This process is called hydrolysis.
What is the process that converts large alkanes to small alkanes and alkenes is called?
Long-chain alkanes can be broken into smaller hydrocarbons in a process called cracking, which may be thermal or catalytic.
What is the process called by which food is broken down and nutrition is extracted?
The process is called metabolism.Digestion is the mechanical and chemical breaking down of food into smaller components that can be absorbed into a blood stream,
Chemical reactions that take apart molecules?
The chemical process by which molecules are broken down into their smaller components is called catabolism.
What are rocks called that formed from volcanic process?
Those would be igneous rocks. Extrusive igneous rocks.
How can you change a igneous rock into a sedimentary rock?
The igneous rock must be broken down into fragments called sediment and somehow cemented together.
What is a rock with large crystals scattered on a background of much smaller crystals called?
If igneous, it is called a porphyry.
A general process which breaks down large molecules into smaller ones?
The process that breaks up molecules into smaller units is called catabolism. Large molecules, such as nucleic acids, are broken down into smaller molecules, such as amino acids.
Acts are broken into smaller sections called?
Scenes
