Rocks in General
This is a general name for solids formed from one or more minerals.
What are rocks?
All igneous rocks come from this term which means melted rock.
What is molten?
This is the name we give to molten rock within earth.
What is magma?
Molten rock at the surface of the earth is called this.
What is lava?
This property of igneous rocks tells us the most about its origin.
This is the number of types of rocks.
What is three?
This is the number of types of igneous rocks.
What is 2?
This is where Intrusive rocks form.
What is inside the earth?
Crystal textures of extrusive rocks tend to be more toward this category.
What is fine texture?
This crystal observation would tell us the rock probably formed deeper in the earth.
What are large crystals?
This four letter word describes a rock of only one mineral.
What is pure?
The term igneous rock comes from this greek word.
What is ignus?
Intrusive igneous rocks tend to cool more slowly because the earth acts like this common cold day item.
What is a blanket?
This is generally true about their formation speed.
What is faster?
Crystal formation size and quality depend upon these two things.
What are time and space.
These are the names of earth's basic types of rocks.
This trapped air in an igneous rock may form this.
What is a vesicle?
Intrusive rocks generally have larger crystals causing this.
What is coarse texture?
Extrusive rocks tend to create larger these than intrusive rocks.
What are vesicles?
What is small or no crystal formation.
What is organic?
These three words are the steps to form igneous rocks. The first step makes the magma or lava.
What are melts, cools, solidify?
This is an example of a multicolored intrusive igneous rock.
What is granite?
Layer upon layer of magma tend to produce this geologic structure.
What is a volcano?
This term means that there are crystals of two distinct sizes.
What is porphyry?