These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
100
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
200
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock, magma, or lava?
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
Granite is formed inside a volcano and is most likely made from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
300
The process of compaction and cementation.
What is lithification?
300
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through this to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
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
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is: Chalk, Limestone, sandstone, mudstone, etc.?
400
Metamorphic rock is desirable by builders or construction workers because of it's physical properties (ex. Foundations of skyscrapers in Manhattan are very solid and stable).
What is durable and strong?
400
This is formed when clay turns to shale and then undergoes a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
500
An example of an extrusive igneous rock.
What is Basalt?
500
This type of rock is formed from dead plants and creatures slowly decomposing to form into black brittle rock?
What is coal?
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 plate tectonics (ex. convergent boundary, subduction zone)?
500
Foliated metamorphic rocks get there name for the latin word folia meaning what?