These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
100
A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals and organic matter.
What a rock?
100
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
200
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock?
200
This is the most noticeable feature of sedimentary rocks that occurs because older layers are covered and compacted by new layers.
What is strata?
200
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
200
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?
200
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
300
This is the type of igneous rock that will tend to have small/fine grains.
What is extrusive?
300
This is the type of sedimentary rock formed when sediments are cemented together by calcite or quartz.
What is clastic?
300
This is the name of the parent rock that forms a new metamorphic rock.
What is protolith?
300
This is the process by which wind, water, and ice transports soil and sediment from one location to another.
What is erosion?
300
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
400
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
400
Halite is this form of sedimentary rock that forms when sodium ions and chlorine ions in shallow bodies of water become so concentrated that halite crystallizes from solution.
What is chemical sedimentary rock?
400
This is the key component to contact metamorphism.
What is heat?
400
If the temperature and pressure are high enough at the bottom of the sediment, the rock will change into this type of rock.
What is metamorphic?
400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
500
This type of igneous rock is known to have larger, more course grains
What is intrusive?
500
Coral, made of skeletons of tiny organisms, is this type of sedimentary rock.
What is organic?
500
This is the texture in which mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands.
What is foliated?
500
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
500
The texture of metamorphic rock in which the mineral grains are not arranged in planes or bands.