Igneous Rocks
This word means "fire" in Latin.
What is Igneous?
Liquid rocks may be called _______
What is magma or lava?
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 an igneous rock?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
The processes that sediments must go through to form a sedimentary rock.
What are compaction and cementation?
What happens when a metamorphic rock is exposed to extreme heat and pressure?
It forms a new, different metamorphic rock
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive and extrusive rocks?
Explain the difference between weathering and erosion.
Weathering is the breaking down of rocks into sediment and erosion is the movement of that sediment.
A rock started as metamorphic and became sedimentary. Explain how this is possible.
Multiple correct responses
Sedimentary rocks get their name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
Name one intrusive and one extrusive igneous rock.
What are granite and obsidian?
Explain the processes that form sedimentary rocks.
Weathering and erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation
Explain the processes that form metamorphic rocks and the energy source that powers these processes.
What are heat and pressure? What is Earth's internal heat?
Earth's internal heat and solar energy
Define deposition.
The laying down of sediment that occurs when the transporting medium loses energy.