Rock Types
Formed from other existing rock
What is Sedimentary Rock?
3 Categories of Rock
What is Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic rock?
4 Examples of Physical Weathering
What is potholes, roadways, tree roots, and rocky shores?
Formation of rock crystals in cooling magma
What is crystallization?
Process by which magma/lava melts and cools
What is igneous rock formation?
Produced through lava that exits and cools on earth's surface?
What is Extrusive Igneous Rock?
Heating Metamorphic Rock
What is Magma?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering
What is any type of rock?
Sediments that are fused together by a liquid and wind
What is cementation?
Shells and skeletal remains of organisms settle to the ocean floor
What is Biochemical Sedimentary Rock?
Formed on or near the earth's surface from the compression of ocean sediments
What is sedimentary rocks?
5 characteristics of Minerals
What is naturally occurring, solid, orderly crystallization, chemical composition, and inorganic?
Erosion and weathering
What is the process that sedimentary rocks are worn down?
Building blocks of rocks
What is minerals?
Minerals recrystallize under extreme conditions forming banded angles
What is foliated metamorphic rock?
Limestone
What is sedimentary rock?
Rock Cycle endpoint
What is never?
Natural forces that occur through wind, ice and water
What is erosion?
Composed of large amounts of mica and chlorites
What is foliated metamorphic?
Rocks are subject to high heat and pressure
What is metamorphic rocks?
Dissolved substances, precipitate, or separate from a water solution
What is Chemical Sedimentary Rock?
Any type of rock can become any type of rock
What is the Rock Cycle?
Breaking down or dissolving of rocks in minerals on Earth's surface
What is weathering?
The process of sediments expelling fluids to become a solid rock
What is lithification?
Water, ice and wind drops newly formed sediments by what process?
What is deposition?