Igneous Rocks
These are the 2 types of igneous rocks
What are intrusive and extrusive rocks
Sedimentary rocks are made from particles of rocks, dirt and once living materials known as this
What is sediment?
Metamorphic rocks are created through these two processes
What are heat and pressure?
A metamorphic rock can become an igneous rock by this process
What is melting?
All rocks are formed from these
What are minerals?
Igneous rocks come from either one of these molten materials
What are magma and lava?
Sedimentary rocks are the only type of rocks where you will find these _______ also sought after by paleontologists.
What are fossils?
Metamorphic rocks can be classified into these two categories
What are contact and regional metamorphic rocks?
Compaction and cementation only occurs with the making of this rock
What is sedimentary rock?
This is the study of rocks, minerals, and the earth's geological processes
What is geology?
Forms from the rapid cooling of lava
What are extrusive rocks?
This is the breakdown of rock into sediment
What is weathering?
Contact metamorphism is associated with a climb in temperature
What is heat?
The rock cycle can be closely compared to this ecological process derived from the arachnid's silk
What is a food web?
Movement of the earth's plates ultimately causes these on the Earths surface
What are landforms? (mountains, valleys, ridges, etc.)
Intrusive in nature and forming large, coarse grained ones of these?
What are crystals?
The process by which sediment is carried from one point to another
What is erosion?
This type of metamorphism requires a great amount of pressure
What is regional metamorphism?
The changing of Earth's materials as they move through various states of petra/petro
What is the rock cycle?
Oceanic crust is categorized as what igneous rock?
What is Basalt?
The most abundant of the igneous rocks are these?
What is granite?
The two processes needed to create a sedimentary rock are these.
What are compaction and cementation?
Metamorphic rocks seeming to have noticeable layers and/or waves is known as this
What is foliation?
One pathway in which a metamorphic rock can become a sedimentary rock
What is melting to hardening to weathering and eroding and finally compaction and cementation?
or
What is weathering or eroding into sediment and finally compacting and cementing?
The most abundant of the continental crustal rocks
What is granite?