Rock Cycle Unit
Certain Rock Formation
Certain Rock Types
Specific Rock Examples
Extra Rock Facts
100
A natural solid mixture of minerals or grains.
What is a rock?
100
This rock forms when exposed to extreme heat and pressure.
How do metamorphic rocks form?
100
This is rock formed from the compaction and cementation of the remains of organisms.
What is biochemical sedimentary rock?
100
This rock has jagged, angular fragements glued together, and may not be very old.
What is sedimentary breccia rock?
100
Magma sometimes contains gases, which escape during the cooling process. This creates a certain characteric in some igneous rocks.
How do holes in igneous rocks form?
200
A rock material that is formed when rocks are broken down.
What is sediment?
200
This rock is formed from the cooling and crystallization of magma or lava.
How does igneous rock form?
200
These are the three major types of rock.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock?
200
This rock forms when minerals crystallize directly from water, and can also be known as a kind of chemical limestone.
What is calcite?
200
This type of sedimentary rock has an interlocking crystalline texture.
What is chemical sedimentary rock.
300
Sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic.
What are the three major rock types?
300
This rock forms when minerals crystallize from water.
How do chemical sedimentary rocks form?
300
This rock can form from a volcanic eruption.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
300
A rock with large, smooth clast. Probably formed in a stream, where the grains were polished.
What is sedimentary conglomerate rock?
300
This is a process that can only happen underground.
What is melting?
400
Fragments that make up rocks.
What are grains?
400
This rock forms in the processes of deposition, compaction, then cementation.
How is clastic sedimentary rock, or sedimentary rock, formed?
400
This is metamorphic rock with parallel layers of flat minerals.
What is foliated metamorphic rock?
400
This rock is extrusive igneous and has a smooth texture with a dark color.
What is obsidian?
400
This is a tectonic process that forces rocks onto Earth's surface.
What is uplift?
500
This is a fact that applies to all rocks, stating how all rocks are connected.
Are all rocks able to turn into other rocks?
500
This is the rock that changes during metamorphism.
What role does the parent rock play in the formation of metamorphic rocks?
500
This type of igneous rock can only form underground.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
500
This is a foliated metamorphic rock that was granite.
What is gneiss?
500
This is a permenant change in shape by bending or folding caused by extreme heat or pressure.
What is plastic deformation?
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