Rock Types
Rock type that forms forms cooling down magma.
What is Igneous?
Material that rocks are made out of.
What are minerals?
A series of processes in which one form of rock changes into another.
What is a rock cycle?
Type of rock that is formed when rocks are broken down into small pieces by dissolving in water.
What is sedimentary?
Scientists classify rocks by these two factors.
What are composition and texture?
Extreme heat and pressure change sedimentary rocks into this type of rock.
What is metamorphic?
2 of the main examples of sedimentary rock.
What are (Limestone, Sandstone, Fossilized Rock, or Conglomerate)
The fragments that make up rocks are called this.
Tiny rock fragments or materials that settle out of air or water.
Igneous rock type that is formed when molten material or lava cools above ground at the Earth’s surface.
What is extrusive?
3 physical properties of Rock.
What is (Hardness, streak, color, size, or shape) ?
Weathering, erosion, compaction, and cementation of sediments change igneous rock into this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
2 of the main types of weathering.
What are (frost wedging [ice in cracks of rock]; abrasion [sand]; exfoliation [rain]; biological [animal tunnels]) ?
Limestone caves forming from underground rivers is an example of this.
What is chemical weathering?
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