3 Types of Rocks
This rock forms when it erupts from a volcano and cools quickly.
What is igneous rock
This is the process that turns rock into sediments.
What is weathering and erosion?
When individual stones, pebbles, and sand grains are visible in a rock, it has this characteristic.
What is Sand or Pebbles?
When shale goes through metamorphism, it turns into this type of rock.
What is slate?
What is the hardest mineral on Moh's Scale of Hardness?
What is a diamond?
This type of rock is formed when bits of weathered rock and other materials are pressed into layers.
What is sedimentary rock?
This is the process that turns magma into igneous rock.
What is cooling?
When a rock has a surface that is mirror-like and shiny, it has this characteristic.
What is glassy surface?
When limestone goes through metamorphism, it turns into this type of rock.
What is marble?
What type of rock is a conglomerate rock?
This type of rock is formed when heat and pressure change a different kind of rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
This is turns one kind of rock into metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
This characteristic is found in rocks that have swiss cheese-like holes in them.
What is gas bubbles?
After the metamorphic process, what used to be granite is now this type of rock.
What is gneiss?
There are many answers for this.
This type of rock is formed when magma cools outside the earth's surface.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
This is the process that turns sediments into sedimentary rock.
What is compaction and cementation?
This characteristic is found in rocks that are covered with small, flat surfaces that are sparkly.
What is crystals?
When sandstone goes through metamorphism, it turns into this type of rock.
What is quartzite?
What is the technical name for salt?
What is halite?
This type of rock is formed when magma cools and hardens inside the earth's surface.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
This is what causes the entire rock cycle.
What is magma?
When a rock has straight or wavy stripes of different colors in it, it has this kind of characteristic.
What is foliated?
A metamorphic rock can be called change of form or it can be called........
What is change of shape?
What are three examples of luster?
What is metallic, nonmetallic, earthy, pearly, glass or dull?