Rocks
This type of rock is formed from volcanoes.
What is igneous?
Pieces of mineral crystals, rock fragments, and even fossils in a rock that determine its texture.
What are grains?
This is the first step in creating sedimentary rock.
What is erosion/weathering?
These sedimentary rocks are made of pre-existing rocks.
What is clastic sedimentary rocks?
These are broken rock pieces.
What are clasts?
This type of rock comes from sediment produced from erosion.
What is sedimentary rock?
What is formed?
Particles in water settle out into layers called_________.
What is strata?
This clastic sedimentary rock is made of sharp angular fragments.
What is breccia?
These fragments of rock, sand, shells, and dirt are carried by wind, glaciers and rain.
What is sediment?
This type of rock is formed when heat and pressure are applied to a source rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
These igneous rocks believe to have formed slowly underground.
What are coarse grained igneous rock?
In flowing water, sediments settle out based on size, shape and __________-.
What is density?
According to the rock cycle, melting igneous rock produces this.
What is magma/lava?
The rock cycle is a theory believed by this group of scientists.
What is old-earth?
This clastic sedimentary rock is made of large rounded rock fragments.
What is conglomerate?
This is where scientist believe fine grained igneous rock was formed?
What is extrusively?
In this stage of making sedimentary rock, water is squeezed out of the spaces between the rock.
What is compaction?
This is the original rock before it is transformed by heat and pressure into metamorphic rock.
What is source rock?
This metamorphism is the change in rocks over large areas, by heat, pressure, or tectonic forces.
What is regional metamorphism?
This type of sedimentary rock is formed through precipitation such as calcium carbonate or salt.
What is inorganic non-clastic sedimentary rock?
This type of rock is used in monument building due to its strength and weather resistance.
What is igneous rock?
This is the final stage of making sedimentary rock.
What is cementation?
This process causes chemical substances dissolved in water to form a solid compound that settles out of a solution.
What is precipitation?
This mixture of shells and fossils make up organic non-clastic sedimentary rock.
What is limestone coquina?