Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rock
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
100
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
100
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
100
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
100
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
200
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock?
200

The movement of sediment, and breakdown of rocks into smaller and smaller pieces.

What is erosion?

200
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
200

A rock that formed inside a volcano, and either cooled inside (intrinsic) our flowed out of a volcano and cooled (extrinsic).

What is a igneous rock?

200
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
300
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
300
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
300
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
300
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
300
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
400
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
400

Name a type of Sedimentary Rock

What is limestone, chalk, sandstone, or conglomerate?

400
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
400

This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.

What is slate?

400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
500

This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.

What is either Basalt, Obsidian, or Pumice?

500

This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils). Can also be used to light a barbeque.

What is coal?

500
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
500
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
500
Foliated metamorphic rocks get there name for the latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?
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