Rock Type
This type of rock is formed from compacted sediment.
What is sedimentary rock?
Any rock subjected to heat and pressure results in the following.
What is metamorphic rock?
Obsidian is this type of rock.
What is igneous rock?
These small fragments of rocks are the result of weathering and erosion.
What is sediment?
This type of rock is formed from the cooling of lava.
What is igenous?
Any rock subjected to deposition and compaction/cementation results in the following.
What is sedimentary rock?
Both diamonds and coal are examples of this type of rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
The earth's ocean bed is primarily composed of this igneous rock.
What is basalt?
This type of rock is formed from large amounts of heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
Any rock subjected to heating then cooling results in the following.
What is igneous rock?
Sandstone and gravel are this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
The process in which larger rocks are broken down into smaller sediments.
What is weathering?
This type of rock is formed from magma cooling inside the earth's crust.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
When a metamorphic rock is exposed to high heat and then cools, it turns into the following type of rock.
What is an igneous rock?
Basalt is the following type of rock.
What is igneous?
Weathering forces that also transport sediment.
What is erosion?
This type of rock is formed from the cooling of lava outside of the earth's crust.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
When an igneous rock is exposed to weathering and erosion, this is the resulting product.
What is sediment?
Granite is this type of rock.
What is igneous?
Any collection of rocks being compressed together is called this.
(Hint, it's not sedimentary rock, it's a type of sedimentary rock)
What is conglomerate?