Igneous Rock
Igneous rock can be found in or around these
What is a volcano?
These rocks can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
The 3 categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire".
What is Igneous?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock?
These two things are required for metamorphic rock to form?
What are heat and pressure?
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystallized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is igneous rock?
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is Sedimentary?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely made from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
Sandstone(sedimentary) is required to go threw this to become quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
The process of compaction and cementation is also known as this.
What is lithification?
These types of rock can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the Latin word morph meaning.
What is "Form" or "To change"
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive(basalt) and extrusive(granite) rocks?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is limestone and chalk?
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
Sedimentary rocks get their name from this, the substance they are made from.
What is sediment?
This type of igneous rock is made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is basalt?
These are the two categories that metamorphic rock can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfolitaed?
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants(also known as fossils).
What is coal?
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into Earth's core.
What is pressure?
Foilated metamorphic rock get their name from the Latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?