Igneous Rocks
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?
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?
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystallized 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?
What are the two processes that form sedimentary rock.
What is compaction and cementation?
Geologists classify a rock has gone through metamorphic changes by studying these two things
What is structure and composition?
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 "form" or "to change"?
What three types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is chemical, biochemical, and clastic?
This determines the heat needed to change a rock.
What is parent rock composition
The three groups of rocks are classified by
What is how they are formed
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
This type of igneous rock forms large crystals
What is Intrusive Rocks?
Fossils are only found in?
What is sedimentary?
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
Biochemical rocks get their name because they contain
What is life?