Ignorant Igneous
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
The tiny fragments of rock that form sedimentary rocks.
What is sediment?
These are the conditions that form a metamorphic rock
What are heat and pressure?
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What is sedimentary rocks.
This is the most obvious and easily understood trait used to identify rocks.
What is Color?
An igneous rock can only turn into this/these type(s) of rock.
what is metamorphic, igneous, or sedimentary?
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?
These types of metamorphic rock have no banding on them
What are non-foliated
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________
What is sediments?
This quality tells you about the way light reflects (or doesn't) from the surface of the mineral.
What is Luster?
This is a diagram of rocks and the processes that create them
What is the rock cycle?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
This type of sedimentary rock is the only one that can contain fossils.
What is organic/biologic?
This trait is common but not constant for metamorphic rocks.
What is foliation or striping?
The process that moves sediments from one place to another.
What is erosion?
This identifies the color of the powder of a mineral.
What is streak?
This type of rock often forms in layers because it's made of pieces.
What is sedimentary?
The type of igneous rock formed is the result of where and how it __________
What is cooled?
Conglomerate or sandstone would be examples of this type of sedimentary rock.
What is clastic?
This is the process of changing the chemical/mineral makeup of a metamorphic rock.
What is metamorphism?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
This is measured on the Moh's scale.
What is the hardness?
This texture forms when lava cools with trapped gas bubbles.
What is vesicular?
Another term for cooling of igneous rocks
What is solidification or crystalization?
This is the fastest forming type of sedimentary rock
What is chemical?
This is the term used for the metamorphic rock the original rock becomes
What is daughter rock?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks undergo melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
This trait refers to the tendency of some minerals to break in flat planes?
What is cleavage?
The process of settling of broken rock material to form sediment.
What is deposition?