Igneous Rocks
Did obsidian cool quickly or slowly?
What is a quickly?
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
These two processes make metamorphic rock.
What are heat and pressure?
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?
Melted rock on the Earth's surface
What is lava?
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
Rock are a mixture of m__________________
What minerals?
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?
Melted rock inside the Earth.
What is magma?
The break down of rock is called this.
What is weathering?
In what form would H2O be a mineral?
What is solid?
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?
When sediment settles out of water or wind.
What is deposition?
What does inorganic mean?
What is not living, never living?
Where would you expect to find igneous rock
What is a volcano (etc...)?
What is the word in the process of sedimentary rock formation where the sediments are squeezed together?
What is compaction?
An example of intrusive igneous rock.
What is granite?
A specific example of sedimentary rock.
What is sandstone, limestone, conglomerate...?
Give an example of a metamorphic rock.
What are quartzite/marble/schist/gneiss?
What tectonic process can cause rock to become metamorphic?
What is subduction or mountain building?
What happens at subduction zones?
What is one plate sliding beneath another?