All Around Rocks!
Magma that reaches the earth surface
What is lava?
A parent rock
What is a metamorphic rock before it was exposed to extreme heat and pressure?
How quickly a rock ____ determines texture
What is cools?
Igneous rocks form from ______
What is magma?
Rocks formed by evaporation
What is rock gypsum and rock salt?
Formed by heat and pressure
What are Metamorphic rocks
The result of sediments compacting and cementing
What is sedimentary rock?
No crystals form
What is glassy/vitreous?
Ms. Hattner's favorite type of rock
What is Igneous rock?
Sand size pieces become sedimentary rocks
What is greywacke?
Or sandstone
Layers or bands/stripes around a rock
What is foliated?
The result of magma cooling and crystalizing
What is Igneous rock?
Rock textures can be between ____ grained and ____ grained
What is fine and coarse?
Formed by an explosion
What is pyroclastic?
The parent rock of anthracite
What is coal?
Silicon Dioxide formula
What is SiO2?
Compacting and cementation
What is lithification?
Texture is the size of the _____
What are visible crystals?
Dissolving and diffusion
How does Silica get into an igneous rock?
Pieces of rocks are compacted and cemented together
What are clastic sedimentary rocks?
Naturally occurring, inorganic, solid that has a definite chemical composition and crystal shape
What are crystals?
Pieces of rock are loosened by weathering and erosion, and then the sediments settle on the ground
What is deposition?
The four igneous rock textures
What is fragmental, glassy/vitreous, fine/aphanitic, or coarse/phaneritic?
The Latin word for fire (also, an I-stem)
What is ignis?
The three types of sedimentary rock
What are clastic/detrital, chemical, and organic