Igneous Rocks
Liquid rock found inside the earth is called
What is Magma?
What is sediment?
What two processes are needed to form metamorphic rock?
What is heat and pressure?
What processes do you need to make an igneous rock?
What is melting and cooling?
Molten (melted) material found on the top of the Earth's surface
What is Lava?
Magma that is pushed to the earth's surface is called
What is Lava?
Dissolved minerals and particles of sediment stick together to form sedimentary rock in a process called
What is cementation?
What does morph in metamorphic mean
What is to change?
Explain how metamorphic rock could change to igneous rock
What is be close enough to a magma chamber that it melts all the way?
A naturally occurring substance that is useful
What is Natural Resource?
What geologic feature do you need to be near in order to be an igneous rock?
What is a volcano?
After layers of sediment have been deposited in layers, the weight of the layers on top of each other start this process
What is Compaction?
What is it called when metamorphic rock minerals are arranged in parallel layers?
What is foliated?
What type of can become what kind of kinds or rock?
What is any kind?
Regular patter in a crystal
What is a Crystalline Structure?
When all the grains in a rock are large and easy to see, the rock is described as
What is course grained?
What two processes need to happen for any rock to break down to sediment
What is weathering and erosion?
What is it called when metamorphic rock are not arranged in parallel layers?
What is non-foliated?
Water, wind, heat and ice break down rocks by which process.
What is weathering?
A mineral that can form octahedral crystals
What is Fluorite?
Igneous rock that cools very quickly when it forms has a texture that is (what kind of grain)
What is smooth and shiny with no visible grain?
What two process must happen to sediment to form into a sedimentary rock
What is get compacted and cemented together?
Where do the processes of heat and pressure occur at?
What is at Tectonic Plate Boundaries?
The cycling of rock from one form to another, or the recycling of Earth's material
What is the Rock Cycle?
The earth process by which earth materials are removed from one place and transported to another
What is Erosion?