Igneous Rocks
How are Igneous Rocks form?
Igneous Rocks form when magma cools and crystallizes into a rock.
How does a Sedimentary Rock form?
If the sediment is buried deeply, it becomes compacted and cemented, forming a Sedimentary Rock.
How is a Metamorphic Rock formed?
A metamorphic rock is formed caused by heat and pressure
What is a Rock Cycle?
The rock cycle is a basic concept in geology that describes transitions through geologic time among the three main rock types: sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous.
What is weathering?
Wear away or change the appearance or texture of something
What are the two main types of Igneous Rocks?
What is Intrusive and Extrusive
What are the 5 main types of Sedimentary Rocks?
What is, Rock Salt, Sandstone, Dolomite
What are three main types of Metamorphic Rock?
What is Contact, Regional, Dynamic
What is the point of a Rock cycle?
The rock cycle is a model that describes the formation, breakdown, and reformation of a rock as a result of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic processes.
What are three types of weathering?
What are the 5 most common Igneous Rocks?
What is Basalt, Gabbro, Diorite, Dacite, Andesite
What are the 2 main types of a Sedimentary Rock?
What is, Biochemical, and Organic
What are the two main types of Metamorphic Rocks?
What is, Fiolated & Non-Fiolated
What are Ores?
Ores are rocks that include minerals that have important elements such as metals like gold and silver.
True or False, Weathering is bad all the time?
False
What kind of rock is Basalt?
What is, Extrusive
What kind of rock is a sandstone?
What is, Clastic Sedimentary Rock
True or False, There is a Latin name for Metamorphic?
Where do Sedimentary rocks form their layers?
What is, they form at the bottom of the Oceans and Lakes
How can weathering be harmful?
Weathering is a combination of mechanical breakdown of rocks into fragments and the chemical alteration of rock minerals.
What is the Latin phrase for Igneous Rocks called?
What is, made from fire
What kind of rock is chalk?
What is, Sedimentary Carbonate Rock
What are four examples of a Metamorphic Rock?
What is, Marble, Slate, Gneiss, Quartzite
When the particles are carried somewhere else it is called?
What is Erosion
What is the most important effect of weathering?
The effects of weathering disintegrate and alter mineral and rocks near or at the earth's surface.