evolution of rocks
what is the parent rock of slate
What is shale or mudstone?
What are the different sizes of fragments.
What is silt, sand, pebble, and boulder?
How are igneous formed.
What is lava coming up to the surface and cools into a solid rock.
How do Sedimentary rocks form into Igneous?
What are Melting and Crystallization?
True or False: Are all Sedimentary rocks made of other rocks that were before?
Yes
What are metamorphic rocks?
What is an existing rock of any type gets pushed into the Earth and change form immense pressure and heat?
What two processes form sedimentary rocks.
Why is silica important in igneous rocks.
The more silica the darker, the less silica the lighter
What is the Rock Cycle?
What isa circle where each different type of rock can become any other rock from thousands of years?
True or False: what happens when acid rains hit a rock?
What are the acidic particles corrode metal and cause paint and stone to deteriorate?
What is a parent rock?
A rock that was before it became a metamorphic rock?
What are sedimentary rocks made of.
What are sediments?
What are two things we classify for Igneous rocks?
What is color and textures?
What are the three important types of weathering?
What is Ice, Water, Hail?
How long would it take to become a igneous?
What is millions to thousands of hundreds of years?
What are parent's rocks of gneiss?
What are Mudrock, sandstone, conglomerate?
What are Sedimentary rocks made of (fragments of rocks is not an answer)?
What is Sediments
What are the four textures.
What are Pyroclastic, Glassy/vitreous, ophitic, coarse?
True or False: is it true that igneous rocks can have no bubbles in the rocks like Metamorphic rocks?
Yes
True or False: What is lava called on the surface.
What is Magma?
What are the two different ways to classify metamorphic rocks.
The classification of metamorphic rocks mainly relates to texture and mineral composition?
What are terrigenous sedimentary rocks?
What are terrigenous sedimentary rocks consisting of rock and mineral grains, or clasts?
Why does igneous rocks have holes in them?
What are air bubbles stuck in rocks when cooling?
what does pumice become after they become metamorphic?
They will become other rocks
Where would you find vesicular basalt?
What is around a volcano that has been erupted on the surface.