Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Other Rock Vocabulary
Regents Review
100
Rock formed from pieces of other rock and organic matter that have been pressed and cemented together.
What is Sedimentary rock
100
A rock formed by heat and pressure
What is metamorphic rock
100
Melted, cooled and hardened rock
What is igneous rock
100
Hot liquid rock inside the Earth
What is Magma
100
An event that happens over and over (cyclic or correlation)
What is cyclic
200
An example of an organic sedimentary rock is __________? (basalt or coal)
What is coal.
200

Metamorphic rock formed when heat and pressure flatten the minerals into bands. (foliated or non-foliated)

What is foliated

200
Rocks that form within the earth from cooling magma are called ____________? (intrusive igneous rocks or extrusive igneous rocks)
What is intrusive igneous rocks.
200
Rocks are solid mixtures of (magma or minerals)
What is minerals
200
Connection or relationship between two variables (Correlation or interface)
What is correlation
300
Solid materials such as sand, soil, pebbles, and organic matter that is carried in air, water or ice and settles out. (conglomerate or sediment)
What is sediment
300
You can see bands in a ______________ metamorphic rock.
What is foliated
300
Igneous rock that forms on the Earth's surface.
What is extrusive igneous rock
300
A sedimentary rock that is formed from chemicals dissolved in water.
What is chemical
300
A boundary between two things (gradient or interface)
What is interface
400
Sedimentary rocks that are made mainly from fragments of other rocks. Conglomerate is an example of this type of rock.
What is clastic
400
Metamorphic rock that are made up largely of only one material that results in no bands. (foliated or non-foliated)
What is non-foliated
400
The two kinds of igneous rocks (extrusive and intrusive) can be identified by (Texture or bands)
What is texture
400
Example of a clastic rock (sandstone or coal)
What is sandstone
400
Slope or change over a distance (gradient or interface)
What is gradient
500
Sedimentary rock that forms from the remains of living things and leaves fossils
What is organic
500
A rock that has bands of coarse intergrown crystals of various size is a
What is foliated metamorphic rock
500
Igneous Rocks are classified according to (their types of bands or whether they form above or below the Earth's surface)
What is whether they form above or below the Earth's surface
500
Example of chemical rock (sandstone or rock salt)
What is rock salt
500
Something you know based on your senses (retention or observation)
What is observation
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