Sedimentary
This kind of rock forms at the surface, without intense heat or pressure, but by cementation.
What is Sedimentary?
When a rock's composition and texture is altered because of heat and pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
The process from sedimentary to metamorphic.
What is heat and pressure?
To go from an igneous rock to sediments, it would need to experience.......
Weathering and erosion
Give two examples of clastic sedimentary rocks.
Conglomerate, Sandstone, Breccia, Shale
Metamorphic rocks that have no bands or layers are called.........
What is non-foliated?
The breaking down of rocks into sediments.
What is Weathering?
What process(es) take a metamorphic rock and change it into a sedimentary rock?
Weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation
When dead plants and animals are deposited and compacted to form this rock
What is Organic Sedimentary?
When quartz sandstone is exposed to enough heat and pressure it becomes Quartzite. The change in rock is best described as....
What is a metamorphic rock
To change from a metamorphic rock into a igneous it would need to undergo what processes?
Melting, cooling, hardening
The transportation of sediments.
What is erosion?
The type of sedimentary rock is made when dissolved minerals crystallize or come out of a solution.
What is Chemical Sedimentary?
The layer where you find the oldest fossils in a sedimentary rock.
What is the bottom layer?
Which rocks can change into a metamorphic rock?
All of them. Igneous, Sedimentary or Metamorphic
When high temperature and pressure combine to change a rock WITHOUT melting it
What is metamorphic?
Rocks that are continually changing, where any rock may become another type through certain processes is a definition for.......
What is the Rock Cycle?
Chalk is made by skeletons of tiny living ocean creatures, making it a.....
What is a Organic Sedimentary?
The categories of sedimentary rocks.
What are clastic, organic, and chemical?
Metamorphic rocks that have their minerals situated in parallel layers or bands are called.......
What is foliated?
What steps in the rock cycle would be needed to change Obsidian to Breccia?
Weathering/Erosion/Deposition/Compaction or Cementation
The dropping of sediments when the energy of the agent decreases
What is deposition?
The type of rock that is created when sediments and large fragments of other rocks are cemented together.
What is Clastic Sedimentary?