Igneous Rocks
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
The three categories all rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
The process of sediment being glued together
What is Cementation?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock or lava?
The movement of sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
After subduction this process changes rock form solid to liquid.
What is melting?
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
The process of compaction and cementation forms what?
What is sedimentary rock?
What energy transforms rock into Metamorphic rock
What is heat from Earth's interior ?
This process carries rock from the Earth's surface to Earth's Interior
What is subduction?
anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
What type pf rock can sedimentary rocks make. You saw this in the simulation when rocks were analyed?
What is sandstone?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
This process involves a lot of heat and pressure
What is metamorphic rock?
a region of rock that formed together as a single rock type
What is rock formation ?
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Basalt?
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?
What is coal?
What rocks can become metamorphic?
All rocks
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is subduction?
The process by which all the rock formations od a region are pushed up due to plate motion?
What is uplift?