I'm Melting!
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
Pressure caused by other sediment is called
What is compaction?
The processes that form a metamorphic rock
What is intense heat and pressure?
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
The name for when minerals line up creating stripes in the rock.
What is banding or ribbons?
What is sediments?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
A sedimentary rock made up of sand
What is sandstone?
These rocks may just appear the same, this is called
What is uniform?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
Two particles that can be found in sedimentary rocks are
What are fossils, sand, and pebbles?
What is below the ground?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
Two examples of Igneous rocks
What is granite, pegmatite, obsidian, or pumice?
Where does sedimentary rock form?
What is Earth's surface?
Intense heat and pressure but does not ______.
What is melting?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma/lava?