Igneous Rocks
This can cool and harden and form igneous rock.
What is magma or lava?
These are little pieces of rocks, pebbles, mineral grains, and shell fragments that eventually form rocks.
What are sediments?
Name the three types of rock groups.
What are sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous?
Name the three types of rock groups.
What is Sedimentary, Igneous and Metamorphic?
The process of rocks changing from one kind of rock to another kind of rock over long periods of time.
What is the rock cycle?
This kind of igneous rock is formed when magma cools beneath the Earth's surface.
What is Intrusive igneous rock?
These are two ways that sediments are formed.
What is weathering and erosion?
These 2 things cause metamorphic rocks to form.
What are heat and pressure?
Name two ways people use rocks.
What is buildings, walls, roads, jewelry, decoration, countertops?
This type of igneous rock forms when lava cools on the Earth's surface.
What is Extrusive igneous rock?
The main categories of Sedimentary rock
What are clastic, chemical, and organic?
What happens if an igneous rock weathers? What rock does it turn into?
What is sedimentary rock?
When magma cools quickly, a rock has a ________ texture
What is fine grained?
For an Igneous rock to become a sedimentary rock, what needs to happen?
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation?
A hard substance composed of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
This determines the size of crystals that form in igneous rocks.
What is the cooling rate of the magma or lava?
The type of sedimentary rock that can contain fossils.
What is organic sedimentary?