Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rock
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
100
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
100
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
100
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
100
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
200
Liquid rocks or minerals inside Earth is called _______
What is magma?
200
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
200
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
200
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is now this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
200
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
300
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive and extrusive rocks?
300
After sediment has eroded, the next step of sedimentation is this.
What is deposition?
300
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through this to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
300
At a divergent boundary, magma below the surface can become exposed, it is now this type of rock.
What is igneous?
300
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
400
If the igneous rock has no crystal visible and has lots of gas bubble pockets, like pumice, you know that this is how it formed.
What is extrusively (cooled quickly)?
400
Limestone is a sedimentary rock that usually has these two characteristics.
What are fossils and acid reaction?
400
The plate movement that helps create a metamorphic rock is this.
What is convergent?
400
If a sedimentary rock becomes weathered and eroded, it is now this part of the cycle.
What is sediment?
400
These are examples of how mountain rock can get weathered.
What are rain, snow, ice, and wind?
500
This type of igneous rock, like granite, is made when magma cools inside of the Earth.
What is intrusive?
500
In order for rock layers below the Earth's surface to be made into sediment, they have to be a part of this type of plate movement.
What is convergent?
500
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
500
In order for rock layers to be melted back to magma you need a lot of this and it happens at this zone.
What is heat at a subduction zone?
500
Foliated metamorphic rocks have this type of look.
What are thin layers?