This rock forms when it erupts from a volcano and cools quickly.
What is igneous rock.
100
This is the process that turns rock into sediments.
What is weathering and erosion?
100
When individual stones, pebbles, and sand grains are visible in a rock, it has this characteristic.
What is Sand or Pebbles?
100
When shale goes through metamorphism, it turns into this type of rock.
What is slate?
100
This is the definition of a rock.
What is a lump or mass of consolidated minerals?
200
This type of rock is formed when bits of weathered rock and other materials are pressed into layers.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
This is the process that turns magma into igneous rock.
What is cooling?
200
When a rock has a surface that is mirror-like and shiny, it has this characteristic.
What is glassy surface?
200
When limestone goes through metamorphism, it turns into this type of rock.
What is marble?
200
This is the most common materials found on earth.
What is rock?
300
This type of rock is formed when heat and pressure change a different kind of rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
This is the process that turns one kind of rock into metamorphic rock.
What is Metamorphism (heat and pressure)?
300
This characteristic is found in rocks that have swiss cheese-like holes in them.
What is gas bubbles?
300
After the metamorphic process, what used to be granite is now this type of rock.
What is gneiss?
300
This is what rocks can be.
What is many different minerals and many different combinations?
400
This type of rock is formed when magma cools outside the earth's surface.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
400
This is the process that turns sediments into sedimentary rock.
What is Lithofication?
400
This characteristic is found in rocks that are covered with small, flat surfaces that are sparkly.
What is crystals?
400
When sandstone goes through metamorphism, it turns into this type of rock.
What is quartzite?
400
This the most common rock on earth.
What is basalt?
500
This type of rock is formed when magma cools and hardens inside the earth's surface.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
500
Describe the process of Lithofication.
What is...
1) Sediments are carried and deposited at the bottom of bodies of water or valleys.
2) The sediments form layers over time.
3)The pressure from the above layers cements the lower layers into rock, voila! Sedimentary Rock!
500
When a rock has straight or wavy stripes of different colors in it, it has this kind of characteristic.
What is ribbon-like layers?
500
When quartz-rich conglomerate rock goes through metamorphism, it turns into this rock.
What is metaconglomerate?
500
Name two components of gneiss.
What is feldspar, quartz, mica, hornblend (only two)?