Igneous Rocks
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?
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 crystalized 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?
Hot fluid or semi-fluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed.
What is magma?
This is when soil, rock, and other materials are broken down
What is weathering?
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 metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary?
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
Igneous rocks are formed through these two processes.
What is melting and cooling?
This happens when sediment is dropped after it has been eroded
What is deposition?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
This is where the immense heat comes from in order for rocks to melt.
Where is the mantle and the core?
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
This flows out of a volcano and when it cools and hardens, forms igneous rocks.
What is lava?
This type of rock is found in caves.
What is coal?
This word means to change in terms of form, structure and substance.
What is metamorphic?
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
In addition to weathering, erosion and deposition, these two processes must be part of the making of a sedimentary rock.
What is Compaction and Cementation?