Igneous
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
Tiny pieces of rock, sand, shells.
What are sediments?
Which two rock types will form into Metamorphic rock
What is sedimentary, igneous rock types.
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What is sedimentary rocks.
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The 2 processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
A way to know a rock is a metamorphic rock.
What are stripes, cause by heat and pressure?
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________
What is sediments?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
What is the difference between weathering, erosion and deposition?
what is, weathering breaks rock down, erosion carries it away and deposition drops the sediment off?
Where you will find metamorphic rock most often
What are mountains?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and erosion?
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
Sedimentary Rocks often have sediments that have built up over time creating a unique look.
What are layers?
rocks or minerals that are pushed together to make a new metamorphic rock?
what are parent rocks?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
When magma pushes up on layer and causes the layers to lift up.
What is uplift?
What is ice wedging and what is it responsible for?
What is when water expands and weathers a rock?
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?