Igneous Rocks
These rocks can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is magma, lava, or molten rock?
One or both of these two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
A rock that started as sediment, then underwent pressure, was melted down, and finally cooled and crystalized.
What is an igneous rock?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is made from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through this to become Quartzite (metamorphic).
What is heat and pressure?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
The breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals on the surface of the Earth by water, ice, wind, and plants.
What is weathering?
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate (metamorphic rock)?
Sedimentary rocks get their name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
This type of igneous rock is made when lava erupts.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
The remains of organisms that are found mainly in sedimentary rock.
What are fossils?
What type of plate boundary, (convergent, divergent, or transform) are metamorphic rocks commonly formed at?
What are convergent boundaries?
A rock with many layers that is formed through the pressure of the higher layers weighing down on the lower layers.
What is sedimentary rocks?
Foliated metamorphic rocks get their name for the latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?