The Three Classes of Rocks Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- igneous: mostly found around volcanoes
- intrusive:forms when magma intrudes
- extrusive:formed when lava erupts
- chemical:forms with water usually seawater evaporates
- magma:made with lava and helps form rocks
- lava:the stuff that comes out of a volcano
- minerals:the little things that help form metamorphic rock
- rocks:there are three types of them
- clastic:formed when sediments are buried.
- organic:formed from the remains of a fossil
- gneiss:they all can be shaled,but are very different
- metamorphic:has a foliated and nonfoliated texture.
- sedimentary:they include processes like weathering,erosion,deposition,burial,and cementation
- foliated:forms when mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands
- nonfoliated:rocks that do not have mineral grain.
