Igneous
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
Liquid rocks or minerals inside the Earth may be called _______
What is Magma?
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is Lava?
This type of rock is made from compacted sand
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite.
What are heat and pressure?
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is an intrusive igneous rock?
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is Intrusive Igneous?
The name given to dead organisms found in sedimentary rock
What are fossils?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is extrusive igneous?
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What is foliated and nonfoliated?
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
Foliated metamorphic rocks get there name for the latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?