Igneous
This is molten rock found under ground.
What is magma?
These can be tiny pieces of rock, sand, and shells.
What is sediment?
Metamorphic rocks are made when heat and pressure do this.
What is change the rock?
When sediment goes through compaction and cementation it becomes this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
This is the only type of rock you can find fossils in.
What is sedimentary rock?
This is melted rock found above ground.
What is lava?
This is the force that turns sediment into sedimentary rock.
Shale is the parent rock of this metamorphic rock.
What is slate?
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________.
What is sediment?
What is under water?
Igneous are broken into 2 groups (________ and ________) based on where they cool.
What is intrusive and extrusive?
This is when rain, sun, snow, and wind wear down rocks.
What is weathering?
This is the force that changes other rocks into metamorphic rocks.
What is heat and pressure?
This is the force that turns any rock into magma.
What is melting or heat?
This is where a lot of rocks are made new because of the movement of the plates.
What is the ocean floor?
_________________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other type of igneous rock.
This is a type of rock that we burn for fuel. It is made from dead plants and animals from very long ago.
What is coal?
This is what we call the thick lines of minerals in a metamorphic rocks.
What is a band?
This is the force that turns magma or lava into igneous rock.
What is cooling?
This causes all of the different types of land on Earth.
What is the movement of the tectonic plates?
This is the one type of igneous rock that floats on water.
What is pumice?
This is the force that moves sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
This is the word we use to describe lines in metamorphic rocks.
What is foliated?
What is the rock cycle?
This is the word we use for the study of rocks and the Earth's processes that make or change them.
What is geology?