Igneous Rocks
These rocks can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
These are the three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
Give three examples of igneous rock.
What are pumice, scoria, basalt, obsidian, granite, diorite?
This is the the movement of sediment. It breaks the rocks down.
What is weathering and erosion?
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled outside a volcano or just under Earth's surface is this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
This type of sedimentary rock contains animal fossils.
What is limestone?
Rocks that are found inside a volcano are most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
These processes are how sedimentary rocks turn from sediment into sedimentary rocks.
What is compaction and cementation?
These are the two main types of metamorphic rock.
What are foliated and non-foliated?
These processes break down all types of rocks into sediment.
What are weathering and erosion?
Metamorphic rocks get their name from the latin roots meta and morph, meaning this.
What is to change shape?
This type of igneous rock is when magma is trapped and cools below Earth's surface.
What is intrusive?
What are the three types of sedimentary rocks?
What are clastic, chemical, and organic?
Give three examples of metamorphic rock.
What are gneiss, marble, slate, greenstone, hornblende?
This is formed when limestone goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is marble?
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 comes out of the Earth and cools.
What is extrusive?
Give three examples of different types of sedimentary rock.
What are limestone, sandstone, breccia, conglomerate, coal, fossiliferous limestone, chalk, shale?
The heat and pressure needed to make metamorphic rock comes from these specific sources.
What are magma and tectonic plates?
This is a naturally occurring inorganic crystalline solid. Some examples are gypsum, quartz, feldspar, and diamond.
What is a mineral?
This is the difference between magma and lava.
What is magma is under the Earth's surface, and lava is when it is above Earth's surface?