Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Name that rock!
Rocky Relationships
100
Intrusive igneous rocks are found underneath this.
What is the Earth's crust?
100
Rocks that form because of intense heat and pressure.
What is metaphoric?
100
Sedimentary rocks are made of _____________.
What are sediments?
100
Building material that is made from limestone.
What is marble?
100
The rock cycle has _____ main stages.
What is three?
200
Minerals that are in the Earth in a liquid state.
What is magma?
200
Changes in a large area of rocks.
What is regional metamorphism?
200
Rocks that are made of eroded material or minerals are classified as this.
What is clastic?
200
When most lava cools it becomes this.
What is basalt?
200
The process when sediments become rocks.
What is cementation?
300
Igneous rocks with crystals that can be seen by the naked eye are called this.
What is phaneritic?
300
When two rocks change on contact, it is called this.
What is contact metamorphism?
300
You can usually tell if a rock was formed near a riverbed if the rock has this.
What is a ripple-like texture?
300
Felsic, coarse-grained, intrusive igneous rock.
What is granite?
300
Sedimentary rocks only make up this percentage in the Earth's crust.
What is 8%?
400
This causes the very high temperatures inside the Earth.
What is radioactivity?
400
Metamorphic minerals that only form at high temperatures and pressure.
What are index minerals?
400
Remains of dead organisms are mostly found in sedimentary rocks.
What are fossils?
400
Rock type that is ormed by the deposition of material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.
What are sedimentary rocks?
400
Metamorphic and igneous rocks can be made sedimentary by these two processes.
What are weathering and erosion?
500
Igneous rocks can form with or without this.
What is crystallization?
500
Foliation is the layering inside metamorphic rocks, which is derived from the Latin word folia; which means this.
What is leaves?
500
A type of sedimentary rock that is mainly composed of rounded gravel that are larger than sand.
What is conglomerate?
500
The oldest kind of rock.
What are igneous rocks?
500
Rocks can be made into metamorphic rocks by this process.
What is recrystallization?
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