Igneous Rocks
Igneous Rocks are usually produced by these geologic features
What are volcanoes?
Sedimentary Rock turns into Metamorphic Rock through which process?
What is Heat and Pressure?
This "Grand" world wonder is made primarily out of Sedimentary Rock
What is the Grand Canyon?
What types of rocks can be broken down into sediment particles?
All types
This variable is kept the same between all groups in the experiment.
What is Controlled Variable? (Or, a Constant)
____is the name for molten rock when it is found BELOW the earth's surface
What is Magma?
_____are mineral structures usually found in metamorphic rock
What are crystals?
What two processes turn sediment particles into Sedimentary Rock?
What is Compression and Cementation?
After being broken down into sedimentary particles, these particles usually form what type of rock?
What is Sedimentary Rock?
This variable is what you are deliberately changing in the experiment
What is Independent Variable?
Igneous Rock turns into Sediment through which process?
What is Weathering and Erosion?
True or false? Fossils CAN be found in the metamorphic layer of rock.
Sedimentary Rock turns into Magma through which process?
Melting
What types of rocks can turn into metamorphic rocks?
All types.
This variable is the part of the experiment you are measuring
When magma cools quickly, igneous rocks usually have one of these two characteristics?
What is Glassy and Smooth, or Porous? (Bubbly)
Where are Metamorphic Rocks found?
Between the crust of the earth, and above the mantle (magma)
____ are ancient remains ONLY found in the sedimentary layer?
What are fossils?
_____is the breaking down of rock into sediment, combined with movement of the sediment to elsewhere.
Define Qualitative Data
What is data that cannot be measured with numbers, as in color, taste, smell, etc.
This latin word for "fire" gives Igneous Rocks their name.
What is Igni?
What is "ribbon-like"/wavy?
What is the name of the process that turns fossils into stone?
What is Tetrification
Name 5 ways in which rocks are broken down into sediment.
Ice, Water, Wind, Gravity, Living Things (usually plants)