Rocks
What is sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic.
Igneous rock is formed when what cools?
What is magma
Sedimentary rock forms when what collects and hardens into new rock?
What is sediment
Metamorphic means to?
What is change.
this is the possible outcome for a kind of rock when when moving through the rock cycle.
What is any kind of rock, even itself.
The building blocks of rocks.
What are Minerals
Liquid rock found inside the earth is called what?
What is magma
Sediment stacks up in layers that are ______________ together.
What is cemented.
Metamorphic rock is formed by heat and what?
What is pressure.
Buried rock is brought to the earth's surface by what?
What is uplift.
Rocks are classified by this.
How they are formed.
Magma that is pushed to the earth's surface is called what?
What is lava
This specific rock name can contain fossils.
What is limestone.
Contact metamorphism is formed by this.
What is heat
rocks are broken down by what?
What is erosion.
The continual process by which new rock forms from old rock material is called what?
What is the rock cycle.
This is a type of igneous rock.
What is obsidian.
Sediment is usually formed by ____________ and erosion.
What is weathering.
Metamorphic rocks may have?
What is crystals.
Water, wind, heat and ice break down rocks by what process?
What is weathering.
Igneous rocks can be broken into these two categories?
What is intrusive and extrusive.
This term can be used to describe igneous rocks like "pumice" that contain air bubbles.
What is vesicular.
Sedimentary rocks that have the shape of once living things.
What are fossils.
This is an example of a metamorphic rock.
What gneiss.
Sediment is taken to a new location by what process?
What is deposition.