Igneous Rocks
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
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?
What are all rocks made up of?
Minerals
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
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 crystallized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
Intrusive igneous rock?
Coal is a nonclastic sedimentary rock made from what?
Prehistoric plants
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely made from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
After compaction, the final step of forming a sedimentary rock (how it stays together).
Cementation
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
Granite (igneous) forms what metamorphic rock?
Gneiss
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
Intrusive and Extrusive.
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
Clastic and Nonclastic
the texture of metamorphic rock that does not have mineral crystals arranged in bands
Unfoliated
A force that pushes against an object
Pressure
What sedimentary rock contains calcium carbonate?
Limestone
Name three igneous rocks that are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
Pumice, obsidian, or basalt.
Two types of nonclastic sedimentary rocks.
Coal and limestone
Name two foliated metamorphic rocks.
Gneiss, Schist, and slate.
Name all 5 transitions in the rock cycle
1. melting 2. weathering and erosion 3. compacting and cementing 4. heat and pressure 5. cool and harden
What scientist studies the formation of rocks?
Petrologist (will also accept Geologist)