Metamorphic
This type of rock is formed by heat or pressure, or both.
What is metamorphic?
What are sedimentary rocks?
Any rock that forms from magma or lava.
What is igneous?
A naturally occurring, inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and definite chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
Forces deep inside Earth and at the surface that build, destroy, and change rock.
What is the Rock Cycle?
Name one type of metamorphic rock.
What is gneiss, shale, marble, etc...
The loosening and carrying away of fragments of rock or soil.
What is erosion?
Igneous rock that is cooled and formed beneath the Earth's surface.
What is intrusive?
The color of a mineral's powder that appears on porcelain tile after rubbing the mineral on it.
What is the streak?
An ocean plate subducting underneath a continental plate forms this type of rock.
What is igneous?
Metamorphic rock is classified these two ways.
What is foliated and nonfoliated?
The process that presses sediments together.
What is compaction?
The texture of igneous rock depends on the size and shape of these.
What are mineral crystals?
Mass divided by Volume equals this.
What is density?
A collision between two plates is this type of boundary.
What is convergent?
Marble comes from this sedimentary rock.
What is limestone?
The process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together.
What is cementation?
This igneous rock has been used to form statues and construct buildings for centuries.
What is granite?
The Mohs scale describes this characteristic of a mineral.
What is hardness?
This process leads to the formation of sediment.
What is erosion?
Gneiss is formed from this igneous rock.
What is granite?
The 3 types of sedimentary rocks.
What are clastic, organic, and chemical?
Lava that is low in this mineral usually forms dark colored rocks such as basalt.
What is silica?
SiO2
What is Quartz?
The name of hot, molten rock beneath the Earth's surface.
What is magma?