Igneous
Igneous rocks are known as _________ rocks.
What is the first rocks or primary rocks?
Tiny bits of sand, silt, dead organisms, and garbage that settle to the bottom of an area of water.
What is sediment?
The processes that change a rock into a metamorphic rock.
What are intense heat and pressure?
The process when a rock becomes magma.
What is melting?
Examples of sedimentary rock.
What is sandstone, limestone, shale?
Rocks formed from lava cooling.
What are extrusive igneous rocks?
Change in temperatures break down a rock over time.
What is weathering?
One of the causes in creating metamorphic rocks by heat and/or pressure.
What are plate boundaries, heat near magma chambers, intense pressure from rock layers above?
The process that forms an igneous rock.
What is cooling of magma/lava?
The process that rocks go through as they become other types of rocks.
What is the rock cycle?
Igneous rocks that form under the Earth's surface.
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
A glacier moving big boulders from their original location.
What is erosion?
Examples of metamorphic rocks.
What are slate, schist, gneiss?
The process that forms sediment.
What is weathering and erosion?
The plate boundary where we can find copper.
The type of igneous rock that forms large crystals.
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
The gluing of sediment that eventually creates a sedimentary rock.
What is cementing?
A metamorphic rock cannot turn into a different metamorphic rock.
What is false?
The process that turns sediment into a sedimentary rock.
What is deposition, compacting, and cementing?
Limestone turns into this through heat and pressure.
What is marble?
An example of an extrusive igneous rock.
What is obsidian, scoria, tuff, pumice?
The squeezing together layers of sediment over time.
What is compacting?
A metamorphic rock can turn into sediment through weathering and erosion.
What is true?
The number of sinks in Mrs. Coates' new classroom.
What is SEVEN?
The person who took the obsidian from Mrs. Coates' room.
Who is ________?