Igneous Rocks
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
This is what sedimentary rocks starts off as.
What is sediment?
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock (magma)?
The movement/transportation of sediment.
What is erosion?
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
Rock that is found inside a volcano or deep inside the earth is most likely made from this type of igneous rock type.
What is intrusive?
The process sedimentary rock forming by compaction and cementation is also known as this.
What is lithification?
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through this process to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering and erosion.
What is any type of rock?
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the Latin word "morph", meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (granite) and extrusive (basalt) rocks?
Name the most common sedimentary rock found in Florida
What is limestone?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
Intrusive igneous rocks are composed of large crystals. Why?
What is, Because they cool slowly under the surface of the earth?
This type of sedimentary rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?
What is coal?
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure / subduction?
two types of metamorphic rock?
What is banded and non-banded (foliated vs nonfoliated?