Rocks
Formed from weathered rock and organic remains.
What is sediments?
Rocks that form magma or lava cooling.
What is igneous?
Conglomerate from from granules, pebbles, and boulders that are cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock?
Rocks are classified only by their color.
What is False.
A scientist that studies Earth'[s history through rocks and rock formations.
What is a Geologist?
Rocks formed from the depositions and solidifying of sediments.
What are Sedimentary?
Obsidian forms when lava from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystallization.
What is igneous rock?
Rocks are used for building materials, artwork, and roofing.
What is True.
A solid material that is made of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
The two types of igneous rock.
What is intrusive and extrusive?
Rocks formed from extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
Slate is a low grade rock that form at low temperatures when shale or mudstone is subjected to extreme heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic rock?
The rock cycle is a continuous process the recycles the composition of the Earth's crust.
What is True?
A rock formed from lava that has erupted and quickly cooled on Earth's surface?
What is extrusive igneous rock?
The three characteristics used to identify rocks.
What is texture, color, and mineral composition?
The word metamorphic means.
What is to change?
Granite is a type of rock that forms from magma cooling below the Earth's surface.
What is Igneous Rock.
It takes rocks only a few years to change from one type of rock to another?
What is False?
A rock formed from magma that has slowly hardened below the Earth's surface.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
What type of rocks can be weathered?
What are Sedimentary, Metamorphic, and Igneous?
The process of lava cooling and solidifying.
What is crystallization?
Gneiss is a high grade rock that forms at high temperatures when granite is subjected to extreme heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic rock?
Once a rock has made its way through the entire rock cycle, it remains the same type of rock for the rest of the time.
What is False.
The process in which rocks are created, changed, destroyed, and formed again.
What is the Rock Cycle.