Igneous Rocks
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? (so, essentially all of them!)
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
This word means "resulting from, or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is Magma?
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion (Movement!)?
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?
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of rock.
What is Igneous?
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification (hardening to form Sedimentary rock)?
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become the metamorphic rock, Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is ANY type of rock?
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the Latin word morph, which means this.
What is " to form" or "to change"?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
What two specific types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is limestone and chalk?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is extremely durable and strong?
This type of sedimentary rock forms when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
Sedimentary rocks get their name from this, the substance from which they are made.
What is sediment?
This type of igneous rock is made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Basalt or Extrusive Igneous Rock?
This type of sedimentary rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils...hint hint wink wink).
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 pushed into the Earth's core.
What is Subduction or plate Tectonics?
Foliated metamorphic rocks get their names for the latin word folia which means this.?
What is leaf?