Igneous Rocks
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 rock is resulting from cooling and crystallization of magma
What is Intrusive Igneous Rock?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock?
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 rock?
What is sedimentary?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
The breaking down of sediment
What is weathering?
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite.
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"?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
What three types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is chemical, clastic and organic?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
This is formed when sand goes under a lot of compaction and cementation.
What is sandstone?
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
This type of igneous rock are made from mostly silica.
What is Felsic?
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
These are the two sources of energy that drive the rock cycle.
What is heat form earth's interior and energy from the sun?
These elements are from inside the earth and add heat to melt rocks?
What is radioactive?