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
Which Igneous Rock has a vesicular texture and contains the minerals potassium feldspar and quartz?

What is pumice

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 make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
300

These four processes are what turn sediments into sedimentary rock...

What is deposition, burial, compaction and cementation

300

Which nonfoliated rock forms only in a zone of contact metamorphism?

What is hornfel

300

These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.

What is any type of rock?

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

Most rocks that form from fragmental rock particles are classified as....

What is clastic sedimentary

400

Wavy bands of light and dark minerals visible in gneiss bedrock probably formed from...

What is heat and pressure during metamorphism

400
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
500

This process is necessary for the formation of igneous rocks

What is solidification

500

This type of rock is formed from compacted plant remains?

What is  bituminous coal?

500
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks 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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