Igneous Rocks
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
This is what sedimentary rocks start 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?
Rocks that form from cooling magma are what type of rock?
What is Intrusive?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock?
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?
When molten rock flows to the exterior of the earth it is called what?
What is Lava?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through this to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
This process happens when the sediments get transported by wind, streams or glaciers
What is Erosion?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
What is the first step in how sedimentary rocks form?
What is weathering?
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?
This type of igneous rock is made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Extrusive?
This type of 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 turned into a metamorphic rock
What is pressure?
Metamorphic rocks that have lines are called this
What is Foliated?