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When lava flows and cools on Earth's surface it forms what kind of rock?
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Igneous rock is formed through the cooling and solidificatio of magma or lava.
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What forms when melted rock flows to the surface and cools quickly?
Sand
What happens when molten lava flows on the surface of earth?
It cools and forms new land.
What forms when melted granite flows onto the earths surface and quickly hardens?
It forms rhyolite.
What forms in earths crust when molten material reaches the surface?
crystals form when lava reaches the surface and cools
Melted rock that flows to the surface cools quickly forms?
Igneous rocks are formed when molten hot rock flows to the surface of the Earth and rapidly cools down. The crystals that form are rich in silicon and oxygen.
What forms when molten rock erupts onto Earths surface?
it cools and becomes igneous rock
What kind of igneous rock forms when lava cools at earths surface?
Such rock is extrusive igneous rock.
What is melted rock that reaches Earths surface and forms extrusive and igneous rock when it cools?
a Obsidion rock
When melted rock cools or hardens on it under earths surface it forms rock?
Igneous rock. Extrusive igneous rock forms at or near the surface, intrusive igneous rock forms below the surface.
What hardens and cools beneath earth's surface when an intrusive igneous rock forms?
The substance that cools beneath the earths surface when an intrusive igneous rock forms is Magma. Magma is a molten material made up of rocks and minerals.
What forms when molten material from beneath earth's surface cools but doesn't hardens?
Ingenious rocks form when molten material under the earths surface cools. Not only does the molten cool it does not harden.
What igneous rock is melted rock that reaches earths surface and forms extrusive igneous rock when it cools?
a Obsidion rock
