Ignorant Igneous
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
Shale is the parent rock of this metamorphic rock.
What is slate?
The name for the bottom of a river where sediment is usually deposited.
What is river mouth?
Burial
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
What is sediments?
Limestone is the parent rock of this metamorphic rock.
What is marble?
This fine dirt like substance has a brown or tan quality to it. Some can be black or red depending on the area it's found.
What is sediment?
Heat and intense pressure.
Compression
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
A fine to medium-grained sedimentary rock that are light in colour and contain silicates.
What is sandstone?
The rock cycle is similar to this other cycle we learned because there is a constant movement between rock types.
What is the water cycle?
Rock that has been brought to the surface from inside the earth's layers.
Uplift
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
The study of rocks, their history and the processes that form and change them.
What is geology?
Slate starts as this sedimentary rock before compression.
What is shale?
Volcanic Eruptions
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
The process of settling of broken rock material to form sediment.
What is deposition?
Granite can be found in an area surrounded by sedimentary rocks through this process.
What is uplift?
Typically these cause fault lines evident within the rocks.
Earthquakes