Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Marble may be foliated. Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however, stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone. Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material.

The word "marble" derives from the Ancient Greek , from , "crystalline rock, shining stone", perhaps from the verb , "to flash, sparkle, gleam"; R. S. P. Beekes has suggested that a "Pre-Greek origin is probable."

This stem is also the basis for the English word "marmoreal", meaning "marble-like." While the English term resembles the French ', most other European languages follow the original Greeksee Persian and Irish ', Spanish ', Italian ', Portuguese ', Welsh, Slovene, German, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish ', Finnish "marmori," Romanian ', Polish ', Dutch ', Turkish '," "Czech ', and Russian ). In Hungarian it is called '.

Marble is a rock resulting from metamorphism of sedimentary carbonate rocks, most commonly limestone or dolomite rock. Metamorphism causes variable recrystallization of the original carbonate mineral grains. The resulting marble rock is typically composed of an interlocking mosaic of carbonate crystals. Primary sedimentary textures and structures of the original carbonate rock (protolith) have typically been modified or destroyed.

Answer this series of questions:

1. what language is marble from?
2. what is it?
3. what is it made of?
4. are any of those listed?
5. how many?
6. what are they?
7. what type of scientists are mentioned in the article?
8. how do they use the word?
9. how many common uses are listed?
10. what are they?
11. does something in the article change?
12. what?
13. such as?
14. what do they change into?
15. does the change cause something?
16. what?
17. of what?
18. what is the result of the change made of?
19. does marble have thin sheets?
20. how would a stonemason describe it?

Numbered answers:
1. Ancient Greek
2. a metamorphic rock
3. recrystallized carbonate minerals
4. Yes
5. Two
6. calcite and dolomite
7. Geologists
8. to refer to metamorphosed limestone
9. Two
10. sculpture and as a building material.
11. Yes
12. sedimentary carbonate rocks
13. limestone and dolomite rock
14. Marble
15. Yes
16. variable recrystallization
17. the original carbonate mineral grains
18. an interlocking mosaic of carbonate crystals
19. it can
20. unmetamorphosed limestone