Types of Rocks
How is igneous rock formed?
This type of rock forms when magma cools and hardens.
How is sedimentary rock formed?
Weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction and cementation.
This type of rock make up our continental crust.
What is granite?
A rock that was magma, then was cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock. (think below the crust)
What is magma?
Sandstone a sedimentary rock must go through what to become slate which is a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
Which series of processes changes rock from one type to another?
What is the rock cycle?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive and extrusive rocks?
Name an example of an extrusive igneous rock.
Obsidian, pumice
Sediments form what type of rocks?
What is sedimentary?
This type of rock makes up our oceanic crust.
What is Basalt?
Which type of rock would I find a fossil of a fern?
What is Sedimentary Rock?
Granite rock turns into this rock with heat and pressure. (Name of rock)
What are Gneiss?
What type of igneous rock cool rapidly causing little to no crystals?
What extrusive igneous rock?
Give a real world example of erosion.
Answer Varys