Igneous Rocks
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these towering land features.
What is a volcano?
What rocks can become metamorphic rocks?
All rocks
This word/rock means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
This type of igneous rock is formed from magma cooling inside of the earth slowly.
Intrusive rock
The movement of top soil away from an area due to ice, water, or wind.
What is erosion?
Liquified rock found deep inside of the earth.
magma
The process of sediment and small materials being pressed together until it is solid.
What is compaction?
True or False: Metamorphic rocks can have characteristics like layering or crystals
True
A sedimentary rock has been forced through extreme heat and pressure, what type of rock is it now?
Metamorphic rock
What does the term deposition by water, ice, or wind mean?
To be dropped or placed somewhere
Type of igneous rock that cools extremely quickly outside of the earth.
extrusive rocks
How is sedimentary rock formed?
Layers of sediment being pressed together.
True or False: Heat and pressure change the chemical make-up of a rock
False
Granite cools down slowly from magma, has crystals, and is found deep inside the earth. What type of rock is it.
Intrusive Igneous Rock
Chemical weathering
This type of igneous rock is pitch black, shiny, and is formed when magma cools extremely quickly.
obsidian
Sedimentary rock can have imprints of animals, insects, or plants called?
Fossils
Gneiss
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
Zone of subduction/tectonic plates
Rock being weathered by plants or animals is considered what type of weathering?
Biological weathering