What is Limestone?
What are intrusive rocks?
What is deep underground?
What are coral reefs?
What is Porphyritic?
What is Compaction?
What is appearance, texture, crystal structure and mineral compositon?
What is color, texture and mineral compostion?
What is a Sedimentary rock?
What is deep slow cooling magma?
What are hard, durable and dense?
What is texture?
What is Cementation?
What is how the rocks are formed?
What is Foliated?
What is Marble?
What is the size, shape, and pattern of the rock's grain?
What is Clastic?
What is a microscope?
What is the Rock Cycle?
What are Erosion and Deposition?
What are fossils?
What are Heat and Pressure?
What is a chemical rock?
What is an Extrusive Rock?
The process when dissolved materials crystallize and glue particles of sediment together
This is the process that changes rocks from one type to another
These are the three characteristics why people use igneous rocks for tools
This causes large crystals to form in igneous rocks
The process that presses sediments together is called
These are the 4 things that change when a rock changes to metamorphic
This rock began as coral and can be found on continents
This metamorphic rock is useful for buildings and statues
Metamorphic rocks that have their grains arranged in parallel bands are said to be...
Basalt is this type of igneous rock
This is what a geologist uses to determine a rocks mineral composition
Igneous rocks may be similar in mineral composition yet have different....
This rock has large crystals on a background of smaller crystals
Skeletons of living coral grow together to form these
This type of rock formed from layers of remains of plant and animal
These are the 3 characteristics geologist use to identitfy rocks
A rocks texture is characterized as...
A type of rock that forms when seas and lakes evaporate
These are the 2 forces that turn rocks into metamorphic
Igneous rocks that form when magma hardens beneath the Earth Surface
Metamorphic rocks are formed here
A sedimentary rock that forms when rock fragments are squeezed together is called
These play key roles in the formation of sedimentary rocks
The remains of living things trapped in sediment are called
The names of the 3 major rock groups refer to