What is a rock that forms from cooled molten rocked called?
Igneous rock
a rock created by previously existing rock by intense heat and pressure.
metamorphic rock
What is a rock that forms when sand, particles of rock, bits of soil, and remains of once-living things are cemented called?
sedimentary rock
All rocks can become metamorphic rocks?
True or False?
True.
What process is used to form sedimentary rocks?
1. Magma trapped under the earth's surface.
2.bits of sand and gravel form layers that turn into the rock from pressure
3. Lava cools and hardens
Number 2
What process is used to form metamorphic rocks
extreme heat and pressure from inside the earth
Which of these is NOT one of the three types of rocks
indigenous
How is an igneous rock formed?
heat and cooling
What are sediments?
bits and pieces of fragments of rocks
How are sedimentary rocks made?
They are made by gravity and bits of sediments
this rock often contain fossils of plants and animals millions of years old?
sedimentary rock
These rocks are examples of what types of rock.
Schist, soapstone, and slate
metamorphic rock.
Obsidian is what type of rock?
igneous rock.
What are the 3 basic types of rock?
sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic.
What type of rock is this?
sedimentary rock.
What is the most common rock found in earth's crust?
igneous rock.
Fossils are mostly found in what type of rock?
sedimentary rock.