Igneous Rocks
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these
What are volcanoes?
Small bits of rock
What are sediments?
What are heat and pressure?
The three large categories that all rocks can be placed into.
What are igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic?
Transitions in the geologic process that rocks make as they change from one rock type to another.
What is the rock cycle?
Molten rock found under the ground.
What is magma?
The movement of sediments to another location
What is erosion?
Changes that occur in rocks near the surface where there is intense activity of hot water.
What is hydrothermal metamorphism?
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano has been what types of rock in order?
Foliated metamorphic rocks have a distinctive physical feature. What is it?
What are bands, lines or stripes of minerals?
Molten rock found above ground
What is lava?
The process that breaks down rock into sediments.
What is weathering (physical or chemical)?
A type of metamorphism where rocks are changed by exposure to the pressure and extreme temperature associated with being close to magma.
What is contact metamorphism?
These types of rock can become sediments through weathering.
What are ALL rocks?
Sedimentary rocks get their name from this substance from which they are made.
What are sediments?
Extrusive rocks form here.
What is above ground?
Sedimentary rocks that form from minerals left behind when water evaporates.
A type of metamorphism in which rocks are changed over a wide area by deep burial and heating associated with the large-scale forces of plate tectonics
What is regional metamorphism?
Weathering, deposition, compaction form what type of rock?
What are sedimentary rocks?
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the Latin word morph, meaning this.
What is form or to change form?
Intrusive rocks form here
What is below ground?
Fossils are found in this type of sedimentary rocks.
What is organic (or biochemical)sedimentary rock?
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous or other metamorphic rocks? (Or What are parent rocks?)
This type of rock forms from cooling and crystallizing of magma/lava.
What is igneous rock?
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is igneous?