Igneous Rocks
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
These "pieces" are what sedimentary rocks starts off as.
What is sediment?
These are 3 types rocks that can become metamorphic rocks during the rock cycle.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
The three categories/types all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten or melted rock?
The movement of sediment. One of the three earth changing friends.
What is erosion?
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystallized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock that changes it's name.
What is magma?
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this. Page 164 in the book
What is lithification?
Sandstone (sedimentary rock) must go through these two processes to become Quartzite (metamorphic rock).
What is heat and pressure?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types with big or small crystals.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
What sedimentary rock layer is oldest, top or bottom?
What is the bottom?
When a rock is becoming metamorphic, the mineral composition and _____________ changes. page 169 in the book
What is texture?
The cycle that drives rocks to change from type into another type.
What is the rock cycle?
Is a rock a mixture or a mineral?
What is a mixture?
As magma or lava cools, these begin to form.
What are crystals?
What 2 processes make sedimentary rock besides lithification? Page 164 in the book.
What are compaction and cementation?
This term describes how rocks deep within the Earth get moved to the surface.
What is uplift?
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed or smashed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
Does material in the rock cycle include sediment, magma and lava?
What is yes?