Ignorant Igneous
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
Most sedimentary rocks form from...
What is sediment?
True or false: Melting a rock can make it into a metamorphic rock.
What is false?
What is transform boundary?
The number of major plates on Earth.
What is 12?
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
This is the way sedimentary rocks can be formed that involves pressure acting upon the sediments.
What is compaction?
Metamorphic rocks are formed when rocks are changed by...
What is heat and pressure?
Type of plate boundary that creates mid-ocean ridge lines.
What is divergent plate boundary?
Name a state Ms. Sabino used to live in.
What is Ohio, Kentucky, and California?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
This is the form of making a sedimentary rock that involves water mixing with minerals to form a kind of "glue" to hold the new rock together.
What is cementation?
Which of the following is NOT metamorphic rock?
A) Marble
B) Gneiss
C) Limestone
C) Limestone
A type of Convergent plate boundary that creates mountain ranges. The thickest part of Earth's crust.
What is Continental-Continental Convergent plate boundaries?
What is 2 cats?
+Bubba <3 4ever :)
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
Type of sedimentary rock that forms from evaporation or cooling of water with dissolved minerals in it.
What is a chemical sedimentary rock?
Example: limestone
What is foliated and non-foliated?
This is the driving force of the rock cycle and tectonic pate movement
What is convection currents?
Name a very common rock found in Nelson county.
What is: Quartz, Soapstone, Nelsonite, etc
This type of igneous rock is glassy extrusive rock that is sharp.
What is obsidian?
The type of sedimentary rock that forms form the remains of dead organisms.
What is organic sedimentary rocks?
Example: coal, fossiliferous limestone
This is an example of a non-foliated metamorphic rock used for things like architecture, countertops, and sculptures.
What is marble?
The 2 layers make up the mantle
What is the lithosphere and the asthenosphere?
Name the plate did North America ran into to create the Appalacian mountains