This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
What is the smallest version of sediment?
Sand
What are the three main rock types?
Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
How to you get a metamorphic rock?
High pressure and high temperatures
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
What is the process for breaking rocks into smaller pieces called?
Weathering
What rock becomes completely liquid?
Igneous
Obsidian is a type of igneous rock. True or false?
True
Name 3 examples of sediment
Sand, Pebbles, Gravel, Dirt
T or F: Rocks stay the same and never change.
FALSE
Can a rock skip a step in the cycle?
YES
Near Volcanos
What happens to sediment if it expereinces compaction?
Sedimentary Rock
Which rock (one) is NOT metamorphic? Gneiss, Schist, Obsidian
Obsidian
A student finds this rock near a volcano. They cannot see individual pieces of rock. They do not know what type of rock it is. Which type of rock do you think it is?
Igneuos
What does an igneous rock become if it experiences weather and erosion?
Sediment
Sediment is formed from what?
Rocks that have broken down and apart
What is the PROCESS of cooling magma called?
Crystalization
A student found pieces of fossils in a rock they found. What type of rock is it?
Sedimentary