Igneous
What is a volcano?
The broken pieces of rock that eventually form sedimentary rocks
What is sediments?
These rocks can become metamorphic rocks.
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?
The continual process where one rock changes into another again and again.
Example of sedimentary rock.
What is limestone, shale, or sandstone?
These 2 things help form igneous rocks.
What is melting and cooling?
These 2 things help create sedimentary rocks.
What is compaction and cementation?
These 2 things help form metamorphic rocks.
What is heat and pressure?
True or False: the rock cycle always starts with magma.
What is false? It can start at any point.
Example of metamorphic rock.
What is marble, gneiss, or slate?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these 2 types.
What is intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks?
This can only be found in sedimentary rocks.
What is fossils?
The location where metamorphic rocks are found.
What is deep in the Earth?
Sedimentary rocks starts with these 3 process.
What is weathering, erosion, and deposition?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called
What is molten rock?
The rock characteristics when you can see layers created in rocks.
What is foliation?
Metamorphic rock texture where the crystals form visible bands or layers.
What is foliation?
Example of intrusive igneous rock.
What is granite?
Igneous rock texture with crystals or no crystals
What is fine-grained or coarse-grained?
The name of the process of compaction and cementation.
What is lithification?
The name of the process of heat and pressure.
What is metamorphism?
This has to happen before metamorphism can occur.
What is move deep in the Earth?
2 examples of extrusive igneous rocks.
What is basalt and obsidian?