Igneous Rocks
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
Molten rock once it is above ground
What is lava
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
The two processes that form sedimentary rocks
What is compaction and cementation
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite (metamorphic)
What is heat and pressure?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
The greek word that "igneous" comes from
What is ignis?
An example of a sedimentary rock
What is limestone or chalk
Why can we think of the hulk when we think of metamorphic rocks
These rock MORPH and change because of heat and pressure
A cycle in which every rock can change into another type of rock
What is the rock cycle?
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Basalt?
These are preserved in sedimentary rocks
What are fossils?
This is how a sedimentary forms into a metamorphic rock
What is heat & pressure
How are rocks categorized?
By how they are formed?
The Grand Canyon is made out of this type of rock
What is sedimentary rocks?