Metamorphic rocks whose minerals are arranged in layers or bands are called?
What are foliated rocks?
100
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100
This word means closely compacted together.
What is density?
200
Liquid rocks(magma or lava) may be called _______
What is molten rock?
200
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
200
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
200
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?
200
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
300
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
300
The two process of sediment being changed into sedimentary rock is called?
What is compacting and cementing?
300
Why can't heat and pressure convert metamorphic rock to igneous rock?
Because you need to melt and cool rock to become igneous.
300
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
300
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
400
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
400
Eroded materials that are transported are finally dropped in a process called?
What is deposition?
400
What do you call metamorphic rock that is not layered?
What is non foliated?
400
Which is not part of the definition of a mineral?
What is organic?
400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
500
When igneous rocks cool rapidly on or near the surface of the Earth, the rock’s texture will be what?
What is coarse grained texture (rough)?
500
Several rock samples are observed to be visibly layered that has compacted and cemented with different particles. The rock samples should be classified as?
What is sedimentary rock?
500
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
500
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
500
Foliated metamorphic rocks get there name for the latin word folia meaning leaf, what does a foliated rock have?