Igneous Rocks
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
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?
The movement 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?
The three processes sedimentary rock has to go through to become metamorphic rock
What is deposition, compaction and cementation?
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
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"?
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is limestone and chalk?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
The process of rocks being broken down, turned into another type of rock, broken down, and turned into another type of rock.
What is the rock cycle?
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is extrusive igneous rock
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?
What is coal?
What type of rock often turns into metamorphic rock?
What is sedimentary rock?
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
This word is a step in the rock cycle that means to be taken and put somewhere else.
What is Deposition?