The rock cycle
Igneous rock
sedimentary rock
metamorphic rock
anything goes
100
MOst rocks are made from these?
What are minerals
100
Igneous rocks are formed from these two things.
What are magma and lava.
100
Sedimentay rock is named after what word?
What is sediment.
100
name 2 processes that change metamorphic rock?
What is heat and pressure.
100
A person who studies roks.
What is a geologist.
200
Earth consists mostly of this?
Whatare rocks.
200
This type of igneous rock forms when magma cools under the ground.
What is intrusive igneous.
200
Sediments include pieces of other rock and name the other two things?
What plant and shells.
200
Metamorphic changes can occur over what areas?
What large and small.
200
Mud cracks that show an area had wet periods followed by dry periods is shown in what type of rock?
What is sedimentary.
300
This describes the natural process that form, change and break down and reform rock.
What is the rock cycle.
300
This type of igneous rock forms from lava that forms on top of the Earth.
What is extrusive igneous.
300
What is forme from layers of dead plants that press together over time?
What is coal.
300
This is an arrangement of minerals in flat or wavy parrallel bands.
What is foliation.
300
This is a naturally formed solid that is usually made up of one or moe type of mineral.
What is a rock.
400
Rocks break apart and form these tiny pieces.
What are sediments.
400
Both intrusive and extrusive igneous rock form lon-lasting what?
What is landforms.
400
This is the trace or remains of an organism from past time preserved in rock.
What is a fossil.
400
When previously broken atoms rejoin together differently as new bonds form.
What is recrystallization.
400
Daily double! Wager 400- 800 points. When igneous rocks are melted into magma, and then cool under the Earth, what type of rock do they become?
What is metamorphic.
500
How many types of rock are in the rock cycle?
What is 3.
500
When wind and water or erosion wear away the Earth, what type of igneous rock can be seen that would otherwise not be seen?
What is intrusive igneous rock.
500
Sedimentary rock show the actions of what two natural processes?
What is wind and rain (or water).
500
Foliation does not occur if rocks consist of what?
What is only one type of mineral.
500
The crust of the Earth is made up primarily of what two rock types?
What iigneous and metamorphic.
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