Rocks
These are the building blocks of rocks
What is minerals
Sedimentary rock form from what?
What is sediment
What process changes rocks into metamorphic rocks
What is intense heat and pressure
True or False, can any kind of rock become any other kind of rock?
True
These are the 3 types of rocks
What is sedimentary, igneous, metamorphic
What is the process that sediments undergo to create sedimentary rock?
what is compaction and cementation
Marble
Buried rock is brought to the earth's surface by what?
What is uplift.
Rocks are classified by this
What is how they are formed
Granite is an example of a _______ igneous rock
What is intrusive
_________ is an example of a clastic sedimentary rock
what is sandstone
Metamorphic rock can be formed only where on the Earth? Inside/outside/either
What is inside.
Granite is formed when what cools?
magma
The continual process by which new rock forms from old rock material is called what?
What is the rock cycle.
Obsidian is an example of a _________ igneous rock
What is extrusive
Sediment is usually formed by ____________ and erosion.
What is weathering.
Where does the pressure come from that causes metamorphic rock to form?
What is the weight of the rock above it.
Water, wind, heat and ice break down rocks by what process?
What is weathering.
According to the rock cycle any rock can become
What is any other rock
Lava cools at a faster/slower/the same rate as magma?
What is faster.
Sedimentary rocks that have the shape of once living things.
What are fossils.
What metamorphic rock is this?
What is Gneiss
contains air bubbles