3 Types of Rock
Processes
Identify Rocks
Characteristics
Random Questions
100
Name the three types of rock.
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock?
100
This is the process of compacting and cementing.
What is Lithofication?
100
This is the characteristic of this rock. http://geology.com/rocks/pictures/gneiss.jpg
What is ribbon-like layers?
100
This is the characteristic of a rock with holes in it.
What is Gas bubbles
100
This person came up with the idea of the modern rock cycle.
What is James Hutton
200
This type of rock is formed when a rock is changed through heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
200
This is the process that turns magma into igneous rock.
What is cooling and crystallizing?
200
This is the characteristic of this rock. http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00461/images/conglomerate.jpg
What is sand or pebbles?
200
This is the characteristic of a rock with the imprints of past organisms.
What is fossils?
200
This is the time period the modern rock cycle was thought of.
What is the 18th century?
300
This type of rock forms when magma cools and hardens.
What is igneous rock?
300
This is the process that changes any rock into a metamorphic rock.
What is intense heat and pressure?
300
This is the characteristic of this rock. http://geology.com/rocks/pictures/obsidian.jpg
What is glassy surface?
300
This is the characteristic of a rock with a surface that is shiny and smooth.
What is glassy surface?
300
This is what a rock is called if it was formed by magma underneath the earth's surface.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
400
When sand, shells, pebbles, and other fragments form layers that solidify, this rock is formed.
What is sedimentary rock?
400
This is the process where rock is worn down to sediments.
What is weathering and erosion?
400
This is the characteristic of this rock. http://www.pitt.edu/~cejones/GeoImages/6MetamorphicRocks/Marble/MarbleGrayBandedCUp.jpg
What is Crystals?
400
This is the characteristic of a rock with stripes (straight or wavy) of different colors.
What is ribbonlike layers?
400
This is why the earth neither shrinks nor expands.
What is... elements in rocks are neither created nor destroyed, they are continuously recycled!
500
Give an example of each type of rock.
What is Sedimentary; sandstone, limestone, conglomerate, Igneous; basalt, obsidian, black obsidian
500
This statement is either true or false; the rock cycle only follows one path- processes do not happen to more than one kind of rock.
What is false?
500
This is the characteristic of this rock. http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/public/planets/gif/ear/basalt.gif
What is gas bubbles?
500
This is the characteristic of a rock that has visible, individual stones, pebbles, or sand grains.
What is sand or pebbles?
500
This is the temperature range that a rock can melt at.
What is between 600 and 1300 degrees C OR between 1100 and 2400 degrees F.
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