Igneous Rocks
What are tools and building materials
When great heat and pressure is applied to a metamorphic rock, what can change?
What is its shape and composition
Small solid pieces of material that comes from rocks or living things.
What is sediment
To study a rock cycle, geologists observe the rocks...?
What is mineral composition, color, and texture
What mineral is not in basalt?
What igneous rock is a building material?
What is granite
Where are metamorphic rocks typically found?
Where is near mountains or near large masses of igneous rocks
What forms when sediment is deposited by water and wind
What is sedimentary rock
What are rocks made of?
What is a mixture of minerals
What can pressure do to a rock?
What is deform or change the physical shape
What rock is in the oceanic crust?
What is basalt
Where does the heat that can change a rock into a metamorphic rock come from?
Where is pockets of magma
What are the three major groups of Sedimentary Rocks?
What is clastic rocks, organic rocks, and chemical rocks
What do geologists call "particles of minerals or other rocks"?
What is grains
What rock forms from tiny particles of clay?
What is shale
Where do igneous rocks form?
Where is on or beneath the surface
Where do pockets of magma come from?
Where is rising through the crust
What type of rock is a sedimentary rock formed when rock fragments are squeezed together?
What is a clastic rock
What does texture, color, and mineral composition tell geologists?
What is the origin
What is an example of a rock with no visible grain?
What is flint
What does the texture of an igneous rock depend on?
What is the shape and size of it's mineral crystals
What are two classifications of rocks that metamorphic rocks can become?
What is foliated and nonfoliated
Which sedimentary rock has small holes between sand grains allow _________ to absorb water.
What is sandstone
Fill in the blanks. A light colored rock has ____ silica content while a dark colored rock has a _____ silica content.
What is high and lower
What type of rock is on the oceanic crust, which is on the continental crust?
What is basalt and granite