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What is extrusive igneous rock made of?
Lava
What is intrusive rock made of?
Magma
What is Igneous?
Fire
What is the chemical name for Iron?
Fe
What is Lava?
Lava is formed when magma is out of a volcano
What is basalt?
Basalt is a rock that formed when lava cooled down.
Give me an example of Intrusive igneous rock.
Granite
What is Intrusive?
Inside the Earth's Crust
What are the three crystals that are found in granite?
Mica, Quartz, Feldspar
What colour is Mica?
Black
What is Quartz made of?
Silica and oxygen
what are sedimentary rocks made of?
From small pieces of rock stuck together.
Rocks are continuously being broken up by a process called ________
weathering
Rainwater dissolves some rocks. What is this weathering?
Chemical weathering
What are the 3 types of weathering?
Chemical, Biological, Physical Weathering
The broken-up rocks wear away or erode the sides and bottom of river ______
valleys
