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The continuous change of rocks from one form to another.
What is the rock cycle?
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
rock that forms when magma or lava cool
a type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock (magma & lava) at or below
What is igneous rock?
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?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock?
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
A type of rock that forms when Igneous or sedimentary rock get changed by great pressure and temperature.
What is Metamorphic rock?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are compacted and cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock?
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is limestone and chalk?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
Hot, melted rock material BENEATH Earth's surface
What is magma?
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Basalt?
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?
What is coal?
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?