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 may be called _______

What is molten rock or 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 this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
200
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
300

Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely made from this type of molten rock.

What is magma?

300
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
300

Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite (metamorphic).

What is heat and pressure?

300

These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.

What is all rocks?

300
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
400
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
400
Is sedimentary rock hard and durable or brittle and soft?

What is brittle and soft?

400
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
400

Which statement is true:

Rocks can only change on the earth's surface

Rocks can change from one type to another

Rocks can only change inside the earth

Rocks never change


What is Rocks can change from one type to another.

400

Sedimentary rocks get their name from this, the substance they are made of.

What is sediment?

500

This type of igneous rock is made when magma comes out of the Earth.  It is the main rock of the ocean floor.

What is Basalt?

500

This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?

What is coal?

500

These are the two categories metamorphic rock can be put into:

What are foliated and nonfoliated?

500
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
500
Foliated metamorphic rocks get there name for the latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?
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