Rocks Formers
All types of rocks are composed of (?) or grains that are naturally occurring and solid, definition form book
What are minerals.
Formed from magma/lava.
What is igneous rocks.
Type of sedimentary rock that has rounded grains cemented into the rock
What are conglomerate sedimentary rocks.
Solid fossil fuel formed from long ago forests that we burn for energy
Coal
What is molten rock that is underground?
magma
What cools and crystallizes to form igneous rocks.
What is lava/magma.
formed from dead organisms or weathered sediments.
What are sedimentary rocks.
Type of sedimentary rock that has angular or sharp grains cemented into the rock
What are breccia sedimentary rocks.
Name of a sedimentary rock that forms from long dead and compacted dead sea creatures that sink to the bottom of the ocean. Will react bubble when exposed to acids since it is composed of Calcium Carbonate
Limestone
What is the name of Igneous rocks formed from dried lava above the ground. Examples include Obsidian and Pumice and Lava Rock
Extrusive igneous rock
Sedimentary rocks are composed of compressed and cemented (?)
What are sediments?
Made from rocks that are pushed deep in the Earth and experience heat and pressure
What are metamorphic rocks.
Type of sedimentary rock that forms from once living organisms such as plants or animals. Examples Coal and Oil
What are organic/biochemical rocks
Type of slow drying continental crust that is usually light colored and formed from dried magma.
granite
What is the name of Igneous rocks formed from dried magma below the ground. examples include granite
Intrusive igneous rocks.
Metamorphic rocks are formed from any type of rock by (?) and (?).
What is heat and pressure
Formed from clasts, which are broken pieces and fragments of other rocks
What are clastic sedimentary rocks.
Rocks that go under metamorphism and have flattened or elongated minerals in bands within the rock.
What are foliated metamorphic rocks.
EXTRUSIVE Fine grained Igneous Rocks like obsidian cool
SLOWLY
What are the letters that describe the process that sediments go through as the become a sedimentary rock or as go through lithification?
W E D C C
Most abundant type of rocks on Earth that form from cooling and crystalizing magma or lava.
Igneous rocks
Formed when rocks under go a BIG CHANGE deep inside of Earth.
What are metamorphic rocks.
Rocks that go under metamorphism, but don't have flattened or elongated minerals within the rock
What are non-foliated metamorphic rocks.
INTRUSIVE Coarse grained Igneous Rocks like Granite cool
QUICKLY or Fast
The fancy word that means sediments turning into sedimentary rock, starts with the Greek work for stone or rock!
Lithification litho = stone or rock