vocabulary
relating to or involving volcanic processes.
What is Igneous?
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous sedimentary and metamorphic
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called
What is molten rock?
Sandstone sedimentary must go through his to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
Made from sediment
What is sedimentary?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is form or to change
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants also known as fossils
What is coal?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive basalt and extrusive granite rocks?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
Foliated metamorphic rocks get there name for the latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there
What is limestone and chalk
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Basalt?
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?