1.How do you think the magma that formed the Rocky Mountains could have come from the Great Plains? 2. How do you think sediment from the Great Plains came from the Rocky Mountains?

1. It might also be possible that the rock of the Rocky Mountains formed from the rock of the Great Plains if the Great Plains rock were somehow carried underground to where energy from Earth's interior could melt it into magma.  Sediment forms when any type of rock is weathered, a process is driven by energy from the sun.

2. Magma forms when any type of rock is melted, a process driven by energy from Earth's interior. The plate motion that occurred near the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains uplifted igneous rock that formed underground. This rock eventually eroded and its sediment formed sedimentary rock in the Great Plains.