Rock Cycle
The process by which one rock type changes to another.
What is the rock cycle?
The most common type of rock visible on the earth's surface.
What is sedimentary rock?
Igneous rocks can be these two types.
What is intrusive and extrusive?
This is a type of rock made from dead shells.
What is limestone?
rocks formed from existing rocks that have been heated and squeezed together.
What is a metamorphic rock?
Rocks are classified this way.
How rocks are formed
A rock with distinct bands of minerals that have been pressed into parallel layers.
What is foliated rock?
A igneous rock formed on earth's surface.
What is an extrusive rock.
Sedimentary rocks become rocks by these processes.
What is compaction and cementation?
magma is called this when it reaches the earth's surface.
What is lava?
This is how big crystals are formed in rocks?
What is cooling slowly?
rocks without distinct bands or layers.
What is nonfoliated?
rocks formed when magma cools beneath the earth's surface.
What is igneous rock?
This ancient items are found in this type of rock.
What are fossils?
Shale turns into this rock through metamorphism.
What is slate?
Mass divided by volume is this.
What is density?
A sedimentary rock that looks like a piece of concrete.
What is conglomerate?
Igneous rocks are in indication this one time existed here.
What is a volcano?
A type of sedimentary rock formed from the evaporation of solution.
What is a chemical rock?
The metamorphism that occurs when the heat of magma comes in contact with existing rocks.
What is contact metamorphism?
This is the middle circle in the rock cycle.
What is magma?
Slate, schist and gneiss have this in common.
What is a foliated rock?
This type of igneous can float.
What is pumice?
Sedimentary rock formed from living matter that has died and has been compressed.
What is a carbonate rock?
When large regions of the earth's crust are affected by high temperatures and high pressures.
What is regional metamorphism?