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yes. magma is melted rock that is still underground while lava is melted rock above ground

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When a rock is heated it melts to form a liquid called what?

hot liquid that forms when rock melts is MAGMA


Does heated magma rise or sink?

When magma is being heated it rises. When it is cooled, it sinks.


What has an area of rock that flows like thick liquid?

A volcano; magma is merely rock that has been heated to the point of melting.


What does underground water do to a volcano?

Groundwater that comes in contact with magma or rocks heated by magma can boil into steam. If it boils quickly enough it can result in an explosion called a phreatic eruption.


When groundwater is heated near a magma body is called a?

When groundwater is heated near a magma body, it is called hydrothermal circulation. This process can result in the formation of geothermal systems and hot springs, where the heated water rises to the surface.


What is it called when magma or steam that has been heated by magma?

lava!


What is a rock inside earth that has melted into a liquid?

Magma is a molten rock found beneath the Earth's surface. It is formed when rock is heated to extreme temperatures, causing it to melt and become a liquid. Magma can eventually reach the surface and erupt as lava through volcanic activity.


What process is required for minerals to crystallize to magma?

Minerals in magma crystallize through the process of cooling and solidification. As magma cools, atoms and ions within the molten rock arrange themselves into an ordered, repeating three-dimensional pattern, forming mineral crystals. The specific minerals that crystallize depend on factors such as temperature, pressure, and chemical composition of the magma.


Is magma a Liquid or solid?

Liquid


Why rock is heated forms magma?

The rock melts, just like most other solids do when heated. Magma is to rock as water is to ice.


Magma is solid?

A natural hot melt composed of a solution of rock-forming materials, steam, and super-heated gases from which igneous rock results.


Magma is hot liquid rock that makes what power possible?

magma is hot liquid rock that makes what power possible?