Igneous Rocks
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?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
magma
The movement of sediment is weathering or erosion
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 called?
intrusive igneous
What process creates sedimentary rocks
compaction and cementation
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 that form outside a volcano
extrusive igneous
What process creates sediments
weathering and erosion
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
What is it called when rocks continually change from one to another
What is rock cycle
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
What is magma once it leaves the volcano
lava
How does sedimentary rock become metamorphic
heat and pressure
Where does heat come from for metamorphic rocks to form
magma under the crust
. What does Wind, water, and ice breaking down exposed rocks into tiny pieces create?
What is sediments
Who is your favorite science teacher
Mr. Jones