Metamorphic rock
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
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Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
100
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
100
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
100
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
100
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
200
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
200
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
200
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
200
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
200
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
100
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
100
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
100
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is limestone and chalk?
100
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
100
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
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These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
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Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock?
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The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
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A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
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"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
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These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
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This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Basalt?
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This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?
What is coal?
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This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
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Foliated metamorphic rocks get there name for the latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?
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