Igneous Rocks
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
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 rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
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 "to change"?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive and extrusive rocks?
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is limestone and coal?
How is metamorphic rock different from igneous rock?
Metamorphic rock does not completely melt.
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
What are the first two processes that create sedimentary rock?
What is weathering and erosion?
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?
What is the 5 steps in used in creating Sedimentary rock?
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction and cementation?