Sedimentary Rocks
This makes up all sedimentary rocks.
What is Sediment?
Igneous rocks can be found in and around these
What are volcanoes?
What are sedimentary and igneous rocks?
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 igneous rock?
The three categories that rocks can be place into
What are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?
A process by which minerals bond grains of sediment together by growing around them
What is Cementation?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock? (magma or lava also acceptable)
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What is heat and pressure?
Magma forms this type of rock
intrusive igneous rock
These types of rocks can become sediment when broken down by weathering
What is any type of rock?
Process by which sediments are squeezed together
What is Compaction?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
can you find fossils in igneous rock?
NO!
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is igneous?
Sediments are formed by this process when water flows
What is Erosion?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
What is a pumice
"Made from sediment" is the definition of this word
What is sedimentary?
This type of sedimentary rock is formed from decaying tree matter
What is coal?
This type of igneous rock that looks like black glass
What is Obsidian?
These is one thing you can look at to identify a metamorphic rock
Stripes or bands
Hardness
Lava cooling on the Earth's surface forms this type of rock
Extrusive igneous rock
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is 'form' or 'to change'?