Igneous Rocks
Igneous Rocks are created from?
What is the cooling and solidification of magma and lava.
Sedimentary rocks are created from?
What is weathering and cementation.
Metamorphic rocks are created from?
What is intense heat and pressure.
What is deposition.
A natural living and non-living solid formation of one or more minerals in known as?
rocks
Igneous Rocks crystal size depends on?
What is how quickly the magma or lava cools.
Erosion is?
The process of moving weathered rocks.
Where are metamorphic rocks created?
Under the Earth's crust
Pieces of broken apart rocks are known as.
What is sediments
Sedimentary rocks usually form in this type of environment?
What is a water environment like an ocean, lake or steam.
A correct example of an igneous rock is?
What is pumice, obsidian, granite
A correct example of a sedimentary rock is?
shale, limestone, sandstone
A correct example of a metamorphic rock is?
The continuous process in which rocks are changed from one type of rock to another type of rock in known as?
What is the rock cycle
Igneous Rocks that have small mineral crystals and look shiny and glass-like are made from?
What is the cooling of lava.
What do Igneous Rocks look like?
They have tiny bubbles and visible crystals.
What do sedimentary rocks look like?
visible layers of different sediments
What do metamorphic rocks look like?
Ribbon-like pattern with visible shiny crystals can have bent or distorted layers.
The breaking down of rocks and minerals from wind, acids, salt, water or temperature is known as?
What is weathering.
Igneous Rocks that have large mineral crystals that are visible are created from?
What is the slow process of cooling magma.
What is the difference between magma and lava?
Magma is found below the ground and lava is found above the ground.
Sedimentary rocks often contains traces of dead plants or animals called?
what is fossils
When intense heat and pressure is applied to limestone (sedimentary rock) it creates a metamorphic rock called what?
What is marble.
The process by which sediments are squeezed and glued together into a new rock is known as?
What is Cementation or compaction.
Some igneous rocks are are coarse and some are smooth due to the?
What is the Crystal size and how fast the magma or lava cools.