The Rock Cycle
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Rock and Roll
100
A process that causes igneous and sedimentary rock to become sediment.
What is weathering and erosion
100
Formed from lava or magma.
What is igneous rock
100
A rock made of dead organisms.
What is a biochemical rock
100
Where most metamorphic rocks form.
What is the earth's mantle
100
A collection of minerals, organic matter, volcanic glass, or other materials.
What is a rock.
200
A molten form volcanic glass, such as obsidian.
What is lava
200
This type of rock includes granite, gabbro, diorite.
What is intrusive igneous rocks
200
A biochemical rock formed from plant debris.
What is coal
200
What metamorphic rocks are formed with.
What is heat & pressure
200
Give three examples of extrusive igneous rock.
What is pumice, obsidian,and basalt.
300
A tectonic process that forces rocks onto Earth's surface throughout the rock cycle.
What is uplift
300
The process that turns magma or lava into igneous rock.
What is cooling and crystallization
300
Rocks formed from the direct crystallization of minerals from water, such as limestone and rock salt.
What is chemical rock
300
Determines the temperature necessary to change a parent rock into a metamorphic rock.
What is the composition of a parent rock.
300
This is where most metamorphic rocks form.
What is deep in the mantle
400
The continuous changing and reforming of rocks.
What is the rock cycle
400
Formed above the surface, and have smaller or invisible grains
What is extrusive igneous rock
400
The small pieces that make up clastic rock.
What are clasts
400
What metamorphic rocks that contain parallel, flat, or elongated minerals are called.
What is foliated rock
400
A process in which the weight from layers of sediment forces out fluid and decreases space between the grains.
What is compaction
500
A term used to explain how rocks can bend or fold without melting.
What is plastic deformation
500
A rock formed when gas escapes from a forming rock, leaving holes on the surface.
What is pumice
500
A clastic rock that has angular clasts.
What is Breccia
500
The formation of extremely large metamorphic rocks.
What is regional metamorphism
500
molten rock from deep inside earth.
What is magma
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