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

When sediment settles in one place like at the bottom of a hill that is eroding *(think of WED)

What is deposition?

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

What does WED stand for in Sedimentary rock formation? 

Weathering, Erosion and Deposition

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

How fast an igneous rock cools makes a difference in the formation of these in the rock

What are crystals

400

Limestone and sandstone are examples of this

What are 2 types of sedimentary rock?

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

When shale turns into slate what is that an example of?

What is a metamorphic rock?

400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
500

Basalt and granite are examples of this rock type

What is igneous?

500

This type of rock is most likely to have fossils

What are sedimentary rocks?

500

This rock type is often very hard and used in construction

What are metamorphic rocks? (slate, marble)

500

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

What is subduction?

500

A glassy igneous rock that cooled very quickly

What is obsidian?

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