Igneous Rocks
What a sedimentary rock is made of.
What are fragments/ pieces of rock stuck together?
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
What is magma called as soon as it leaves the volcano?
What is lava?
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is Clastic and Nonclastic?
Sedimentary rocks get their name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
Semi-solid molten rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely.
What is magma?
The movement of sediment.
What can you classify a rock as if it has mineral alignment or banding?
What is a foliated metamorphic rock?
This particular rock was able to cool slowly and form beautiful crystals.
What is Granite?
This type of rock is formed from dead plants, and animals and is found near lakes and dried-up riverbeds
What is Sedimentary rock?
This happens to foliation as temperature increases but pressure doesn't
What is less foliation? (less visible layers)
This feature is formed when rock is able to cool slowly underneath the Earth's surface.
What is crystalization?
The ESRT stands for.
What is Earth Science Reference table? (helps us classify rocks)
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire.
What is Igneous?
What process does sediment have to go through to harden and become one solid rock?
What is compaction and cementation? (lithification)
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are protoliths? sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is heat and pressure?
The process of Earth's crust breaking down, recycling into the mantle, hardening and becoming new rock.
What is The Rock Cycle?