Rock Cycle
The rock that is made by compacting and cementing particles such as pebbles, sand, and gravel.
What are sedimentary rocks?
An opening in the Earth's crust through which lava, ash, and gases erupt.
What is a volcano?
How thick a liquid is.
What is viscosity?
The name of the endless cycle rocks go through.
What is the Rock Cycle?
Magma is stored in here in a volcano before erupting.
What is a magma chamber?
The thicker of the two kinds of lava, contains more silica content.
What is felsic lava?
Quartz, commonly used in statues and some buildings, are in this rock type.
What are metamorphic rocks?
Opening in the side of the volcano.
The thinner of the two types of lava, low in silica.
What is mafic lava?
Basalt, which can be found on the ocean floor, is this type of rock.
What is an igneous rock?
A mass of igneous rock, typically lens-shaped, that has been intruded between rock strata causing uplift in the shape of a dome.
What is a laccolith?
Rocks have to go in a certain order in the rock cycle.(True or False)
False
A very large igneous intrusion extending deep in the earth's crust.
What is a batholith?