Rock Cycle
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
This word means resulting from or produced from fire.
What is Igneous?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called?
What is molten rock?
The rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What is igneous, sedimentary, and most metamorphic rocks?
How are sediments made?
What is Weathering and Erosion?
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?
Made from sediment is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
What are the two things required for a metamorphic rock to form?
What is heat and pressure?
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediments?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is to form or to change?
Igneous rocks can be classified in what two type?.
What is intrusive and extrusive rocks?
Why is metamorphic rock great for building?
What is durable and strong?
The movement of sediments.
What is erosion?
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
This type of igneous rock is made when magma comes out of the earth.
What is Basalt?
What are the two categories that Metamorphic rocks can go into?
What is foliated and non-foliated?
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is limestone and chalk?
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
Foliated metamorphic rocks get there name for the latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?
This type of rock is made when magma cools.
What is Igneous Rock?
This type of rock is made when there is heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
This rock is made when sediments start compacting and cementing.
What is Sedimentary Rock?