Igneous Rocks
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these landforms.
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?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock?
The break down of large rocks and movement of sediment.
What is weathering and 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 an igneous rock?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely made from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
Mountain building events typically cause this type of metamorphism.
What is regional metamorphism?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
What three types are sedimentary rocks typically classified as?
What is clastic/fragmental, crystalline and bioclastic?
This type of metamorphism is local and formed through igneous intrusions through bedrock.
What is contact metamorphism?
This is formed when granite goes through high grade metamorphism, or extreme heat and pressure.
What is gneiss?
Sedimentary rocks get their name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
This type of felsic igneous rock typically has large coarse crystals.
What is granite?
Identify the rock name of a sedimentary rock 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 underground get exposed so that weathering and erosion can occur.
What is uplift?
Foliated metamorphic rocks that undergo extreme heat and pressure display nice stripes called this.
What is banding?