The type of rock is formed by magma or lava
What is Igneous Rock?
The small pieces of broken down rocks, bone, or other materials
What is sediment?
The processes that change any other rock into a metamorphic rock
What are changes in heat and pressure?
The process that breaks down rocks into sediment
What is weathering and erosion?
A metamorphic rock formed from limestone
What is Marble?
This type of rock cools slowly and has large grains
What is intrusive?
breaking down of rocks into small particles
What is weathering?
The two types of metamorphic rock
What are foliated and non-foliated?
What is melting?
Geologists classify metamorphic rocks according to the _______________ of the grains making up the rocks.
What is the arrangement?
Rocks formed by magma, have ________ crystals or grains.
What are large?
A type of sedimentary rock formed when the minerals dissolved in a water solution crystallize
What is chemical?
This type of metamorphic rock is arranged in bands or layers
What is foliated?
The processes that change sediment into sedimentary rocks
What is deposition, compaction, and cementation?
What are clastic, organic, and chemical?
The most common igneous rock, formed above ground
What is basalt?
A sedimentary rock formed from the remains of ocean plants and animals
What is limestone?
The types of rocks that can form metamorphic rocks
What are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?
The process causes molten material to become igneous rock
What is cooling?
During formation, the minerals of a metamorphic rock can change into other ____________________.
What are minerals?
The two types of rocks formed by magma or lava
What are intrusive and extrusive?
The process by which sediments are "glued or stuck together" by minerals dissolved in water
What is cementation?
Metamorphic rocks can be found near ______________ or other masses of igneous rock.
What are mountains?
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation?
The two ways limestone can form
What is organic and chemical?