Sedimentary
This is what sedimentary rocks are made of.
What are sediments?
This is how igneous rocks form.
This is how metamorphic rocks are formed.
What is heat and pressure being placed on rocks?
This is how sedimentary rocks turn into magma.
This is the description for crystals.
What are small, flat surfaces that are shiny like mirrors.
This is how sedimentary rocks are formed.
What is compaction and cementation of sediments?
This is what an igneous rock is called when it cools above the ground.
What is extrusive?
The alternating light and dark layers on a rock.
What is foliation?
This is how igneous rock turns into sedimentary rock.
What is weathering and erosion and compaction and cementation?
This is the description for fossils.
What are imprints of leaves, shells. insects, or dead animals?
These processes form sediments.
This is what determines the size of crystals in igneous rocks.
What is the location of cooling?
The rock a metamorphic rock was before heat and pressure was placed on it.
What is a parent rock?
This is how igneous rock turns into metamorphic rock.
What is weathering and erosion, followed by compaction and cementation, followed by heat and pressure being placed on the rock?
These are common characteristics for igneous rock.
What are shiny, glasslike, and scratchy surfaces?
These are the three types of sedimentary rock.
What are clastic rocks, chemical rocks, and organic rocks?
This is the informal name for phaneritic texture.
This is what a rock is called when no crystals are visible.
What is fine-grained?
This is how to get stuck in a cycle between igneous and sedimentary rock.
What is weathering and erosion, followed by compaction and cementation, followed by melting, followed by crystallization, and going back to weathering and erosion?
These are common characteristics for sedimentary rock.
What are fragments of sediment and often contain fossils?
The five possible structures of a sedimentary rock.
What is fragmental, granular, crystalline, glassy, and resinous?
The Latin word for fire, and also the root of the word igneous
What is ignis?
This is what shale becomes when placed under heat and pressure.
What is slate?
This is the longest way to get from magma back to magma without getting into a cycle.
What is cooling and crystallization, followed by weathering and erosion, followed by compaction and cementation, followed by heat and pressure being applied to the rock, followed by melting back into magma?
These are common characteristics of metamorphic rock.
What are ribbonlike layers and shiny crystal surfaces?