Rock-n-Roll
A natural, solid mixture of minerals or grains
What is a Rock?
Molten or liquid rock material that id deep beneath Earth's surface
What is magma?
Small pieces of rock formed when rocks break down.
What is sediment?
Rocks that form from preexisting rocks that react to changes in extreme temperature and pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
Processes that change one rock type into another
What is the Rock Cycle?
Rocks are everywhere. They can be found______.
What is. . .
mountain, beach, seafloor, etc. (Answers will vary)
Molten rock that erupts onto Earth's surface
What is lava?
Weathering includes ________, _________, ________, and ___________.
What is ice, wind, water and gravity?
Minerals and grains present in a rock help geologists identify the rock's _________________.
What is composition?
For a rocks form from other rocks undergoing processes such as melting and cooling, heat and pressure, deposition and compaction. What is the other important element that rocks need to for?
What is time?
Any fragment that makes up a rock.
What is a grain?
As mineral crystals grow they connect like ____________.
What are the pieces of a puzzle?
Sedimentary environments include _____________.
What is . . . Answers may vary
rivers and streams
deserts
valleys
Metamorphic rocks can form from what other types of rocks. What other types?
What is . . .
sedimentary
metamorphic
igneous
Rocks follow many different paths on the Rock Cycle. Rocks can change into every other type of rock including back to ____________.
What is itself?
The size of the grain and the way it fits together in the rock
What is texture?
Igneous rocks form as a result of _____________ and ___________.
What is cooling and crystallizing lava or magma?
Sedimentary Rocks are formed___________, __________, ___________.
What is deposition, compaction, cementation?
Metamorphic rocks are formed under extreme ______________ and _____________.
What is heat and pressure?
Sedimentary rocks can change into ___________, __________________, and _____________ rocks through the rock cycle.
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?
It's size, shape, and chemical composition is used to classify rocks.
What is a grain?
Name one place where an igneous rocks can form.
What is. . . . . answers may vary?
Where can sedimentary rocks be found?
What is . . .Answers May Vary
______________ can also cause rocks to become metamorphic.
What are chemicals?
Geologist classify rocks based on how they_______.
What is form?