Rocks
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Processes of the Rock Cycle
100
A rock that is characterized to be porous or to have angular, sharp-edged crystals?
What is igneous rock?
100
Igneous rock that cools inside the Earth.
What is intrusive igneous?
100
Sedimentary rock forms when what collects and hardens into new rock?
What is sediment?
100
Metamorphic means to?
What is change?
100
Any type of rock can become what kind or kinds of rock?
What is any kind of rock?
200
A rock is a solid mixture of crystals of one or more what?
What are minerals?
200
Liquid rock found inside the earth is called what?
What is magma?
200
Sediment stacks up in layers that are compressed then ______________ together.
What is lithified.
200
Metamorphic rock is formed by heat and what?
What is pressure?
200
A caterpillar turning into a butterfly.
What is metamorphosism?
300
A rock that is commonly characterized with distinct layering?
What is a sedimentary rock?
300
Magma that is pushed to the earth's surface is called what?
What is lava?
300
Sedimentary rock often forms at the bottom of _____________ as it is deposited by rivers and streams.
What is lakes or seas.
300
Metamorphic rock can be formed only where on the Earth? Inside/outside/either.
What is inside?
300
Grains of rock are removed from their source by what?
What is erosion.
400
The continual process by which new rock forms from old rock material is called what?
What is the rock cycle.
400
Igneous rocks form when when existing rock melts, then cools and ________________.
What is crystallizes?
400
Sediment is usually formed by ____________ and erosion.
What is weathering.
400
Where does the pressure come from that causes metamorphic rock to form?
What is the weight of the rock above it.
400
Water, wind, heat and ice break down rocks by what process?
What is weathering?
500
Crystals grow as melted rock does what?
What is cools?
500
Lava cools at a faster/slower/the same rate as magma?
What is faster?
500
Sedimentary rocks that have once living things.
What are fossils.
500
Contact metamorphic rock require only this.
What is heat only?
500
Water, ice, and wind drop newly formed sediments by what process?
What is deposition.
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