Igneous Rocks
True or false: Igneous rocks that are formed from molten rock outside of Earth are classified as intrusive.
What is FALSE?
True or false: Contact metamorphism is change through intense heat
What is TRUE?
The process of rocks breaking down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The word for how and where the rock formed?
What is origin?
Rocks that are formed from heat and pressure
What are metamorphic rocks?
True or False: Igneous rocks are formed when molten rock cools and hardens either above or below the earth's surface.
What is Regional Metamorphism?
The process where compaction and cementation are occurring.
What is lithification?
The word that describes what rocks look and feel like?
What is texture?
Rocks that are formed when molten rock cools and hardens either below or on the earth's surface
What are igneous rocks?
Use your igneous rock identification chart.
The name of an intrusive igneous rock that has a light (felsic) color with a coarse texture.
What is Granite?
Use your Metamorphic Rock Identification Chart.
The name of the Metamorphic rock that has a foliated texture and a fine grain size.
What is Slate?
Use your Sedimentary Rock Identification Chart.
A clastic rock with fine to coarse texture.
What is Sandstone?
This is the word to describe the minerals that make up each rock?
What is composition?
Rocks that are formed from the compaction and cementation of sediments.
What are sedimentary rocks?
Use your igneous rock identification chart.
The name of an extrusive igneous rock with an intermediate color and composition and fine texture.
What is Vesicular andesite?
Use your Metamorphic Rock Identification Chart.
The nonfoliated rock with a fine to coarse texture and composed of Quartz.
What is Quartzite?
Use your Sedimentary Rock Identification Chart.
A non-clastic rock composed of halite.
What is rock salt?
The process of sediments being transported away.
What is erosion?
The 1st or beginning rock before it is changed.
What is a parent rock?
Use your igneous rock identification chart.
The name of the intrusive igneous rock with a non-vesicular and very coarse texture that is felsic or light-colored?
What is Pegmatite?
Use your Metamorphic Rock Identification Chart.
The name of the metamorphic rock that is foliated, has a fine to medium grain size, and has shiny surfaces from microscopic mica crystals.
What is Schist?
Use your Sedimentary Rock Identification Chart.
A bioclastic rock with a microscopic to very coarse grain size, composed of calcite.
What is limestone?
The word for different layers of sediment.
What is strata?
This rock could contain a fossil.
What is a sedimentary rock?