Igneous Rocks
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
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?
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock?
The movement of sediment.
What is 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 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 make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
When rocks/ sediments get deposited in rivers lakes and streams after it is eroded
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become 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, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
This is a glassy-looking extrusive rock that forms when lava cools very quickly.
What is Obsidian.
What is it called when a rock breaks up?
What is weathering
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
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?
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Basalt?
This type of rock is 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 on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
Foliated metamorphic rocks get there name for the latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?