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What is magma called after it hits the air and turns solid?
After magma hits air it turns into lava
What type of change happens when lava cools to rock?
lava cooling to become rock is a change of state from liquid to solid
How does lava dry?
Magma does not dry. Drying implies that the magma becomes solid by loss of water. In reality it becomes solid due to a drop in temperature. So, in reality it freezes. When magma solidifies it becomes intrusive igneous rock.
Lava that forms smooth ropelike coils when it hardens is called?
Pahoehoe
Which of earth's layers is not solid?
The exact very middle. Because, it is lava.
What is the solid magma core of a volcano called?
Magma is underground, when it reaches the surface it becomes lava. So solidified magma is really lava. The lava flow is the liquid lava as it goes down the mountain, when hard its just hardened lava. Magma is underground, when it reaches the surface it becomes lava. So solidified magma is really lava. The lava flow is the liquid lava as it goes down the mountain, when hard its just hardened lava.
The solid form of lava that is so frothy with gas when it reaches the surface is called?
pumice
Liquid into a solid?
Called freezing, or in the case of lava and some other things, solidifying.
What is magma called after it hits the air and turns solid?
After magma hits air it turns into lava
Why is the earth full of lava?
The Earth is not full of lava. The majority of the earth is solid and small amounts of lava are produced by partial melting of this solid.
Liquid is to solid as water is to what?
gas
Why is rock a solid and lava a liquid?
Rocks are solid objects therefore they are solids. Lava is rock that has been melted in to a liquid therefore makeing lava a liquid.
Is lava a liquid or a gas?
lava is a liquid but when it hardens and becomes metimorphic rock it becomes a solid
Is a volcano a solid?
Lava is a liquid although some parts of it may have already solidified.
What is made of solid rock?
lava
What is molten rock outside a Volcano on Earth's surface called?
Magma that reaches the surface it is called lava.Molten rock from the Earth's interior that breaks through to the surface is called lava
What is it called when magma erupts onto the surface of the volcano?
lava
