Igneous Rocks
How are Igneous Rocks formed? ______
They are formed from the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.
There are three categories into which all rocks can be into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
Heat and pressure deep in the earth's surface?
What are the changes that metamorphic rocks go through?
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called?_____
What is molten rock?
A rock that was a sediment, then went under pressure then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock
What is Igneous Rocks?
Sandstone( a sedimentary) must go through this to become Quartzite?
What is changes like heat and pressure?
The movement of sediments.
What is erosion?
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the Latin word morph, meaning this
What is "form" or "to change"?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is the most likely made from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
The process of compaction and cementation is also known as this.
What is lithification?
Sedimentary rocks get their name from, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
These are the two categories into which metamorphic rocks can be put.
What are foliated and non-foliated rocks
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is limestone and chalk?
Foliated metamorphic rocks get their name from the Latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf
This type of igneous rock is made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Basalt?
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
Which of these 4 rocks is considered a metamorphic rock? Shale, Limestone, Marble, Obisdan?
Marble! It is marble because it goes through the metamorphism of limestone.
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants( also known as fossils ).
What is coal?
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is igenous?