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?
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
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
300
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
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

Explain how an igneous rock can become a sedimentary rock.

It can be exposed to weathering, erosion and deposition.

400
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is limestone and chalk?
400

About how long would it take for one rock to change into another rock?

Millions of years

400
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
400

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

What is sediment?

500

This is a black, very shiny, smooth igneous rock.

What is obsidian?

500

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

What is coal?

500

Explain how a metamorphic rock could become an igneous rock.

It could melt in the earth, turn to magma, cool and become an igneous rock.

500

This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.

What is pressure?

500

What type of rock forms from another rock that has changed, due to heat and pressure in the earth?

Metamorphic

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