Rock types/cycle
What is sedimentary rock
Fragments of rocks, minerals, and organic matter that have been broken down into smaller pieces
What are sediments?
Igneous rocks form from cooling ____ inside the crust or ______ on the surface. must get both words
What are magma and lava?
These are the two forces that help form metamorphic rocks.
What are heat and pressure?
Formed when muddy deposits dry and shrink.
What are mud cracks?
A type of rock that's name means "from fire"
what is Igneous rock
The binding (gluing) of the sediment pieces together.
What are intrusive rocks
A metamorphic rock that shows banding or striped layers is referred to as this.
What is foliated
A rock that contains a fossil is automatically this type of rock.
what is sedimentary?
A type of rock that's composition changes orientation or chemical makeup due to heat and pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock
A sedimentary rock that is solely formed by the compaction and cementation of sediments, and is classified by the shape, size, and sorting of the sediments.
What is a clastic sedimentary rock?
Obsidian rock is extrusive rock that has no crystals because it cooled _____
What is quickly?
A type of metamorphism that occurs in a very specific spot where other rocks come into contact with intense heat from magma.
What is contact metamorphism?
A vertical rock intrusion that has cut through rock layers and hardened or erupted.
What is a dike?
This is what we call the process in which one type of rock changes to another type of rock in an endless loop.
What is the rock cycle?
A type of sedimentary rock formed from the remains of once living things.
What is an organic sedimentary rock?
Igneous rocks that form inside the crust very slowly have _____ grained texture.
What is course?
The term for the parent rock of a metamorphic rock.
What is protolyth?
A term we use for rocks that means a mixture of multiple parts
What is aggregate?
The parent material that all rocks originated from at some point.
What is magma?
A sedimentary rock feature that forms when groundwater deposits dissolved materials inside cavities in sedimentary rock and they crystallize over time.
what is a geode?
A type of igneous rock that is made mostly of the minerals orthoclase feldspar, mica, hornblende, and quartz.
What is a granite?
What is Slate?
The smallest size of sediment.
What is clay?