Ignorant Igneous
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
A fine-grained sedimentary rock formed mostly of mud and silt.
What is mudstone?
A type of metamorphic rocks that form by the original or parent rock being exposed to extreme heat.
What is contact metamorphic.
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
Which period is between 290-360 million years?
What is Carbonifereous?
A ____________diagram is a combination of the cross-section and the top view of the topography of the landscape.
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
The type of metamorphic rock that forms when the original rock is exposed to both heat and pressure?
What is regional metamorphic.
What is sediments?
Which period when only bacteria, fungi and algae were found.
What is Cambrian?
The different landforms of the Earth are caused by?
What are movements inside the Earth, erosion and volcanoes?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
A fine to medium-grained sedimentary rock that are light in colour and contain silicates.
What is sandstone?
________________is the movement of minerals into layers or bands?
What is foliation?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
Which period would seed ferns fossils be common?
What is the Carboniferous?
What are strata?
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
This type of sedimentary rocks form when dead plants and animal remains accumulate and then cemented together?
What is organic or biogenic sedimentary rock?
Limestone is the parent rock of this metamorphic rock.
What is marble?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
A youngest rocks are laid on the ________
What is the top
The study of rocks, their history and the processes that form and change them.
What is geology?
This intrusive igneous rock is the most common and has similar chemical composition as the extrusive basalt.
What is gabbro or dolerite?
What type of sedimentary rock is limestone?
What is chemical?
Shale is the parent rock of this metamorphic rock.
What is slate?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
In this era, most plants and animals were present accept for humans
What is Mesozoic era?
The process of settling of broken rock material to form sediment.
What is deposition?