Igneous Rocks
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?
The movement of sediment downhill.
What is transport?
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 a igneous rock?
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
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?
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through this process to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure? (metamorphism)
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, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
These types of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is extrusive igneous rock? (rhyolite, andesite, or basalt)
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils).
What is organic sedimentary rock?
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 mantle.
What is subduction?
Foliated metamorphic rocks get there name for the latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?