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 hot rocks or melted 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

Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.

What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?

300

The three types of sedimentary rocks?

What is clastic, nonclastic and crystalline?

300

These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.

What are foliated and nonfoliated?

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

This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.

What is Basalt, Obsidian, etc?

400

What the Sphinx in Giza, Egypt is made of ?

What is limestone?

400

What rock did Quartize come from?

What is the metamorphism of quartz sandstone?

400

This is what slate is composed of?

What is mica?

400

What is weathering and its agents?

The process of rocks breaking down due to wind, water and ice. 

500

The difference in location AND characteristics between igneous rocks?

Intrusive rocks are found inside, cool slowly, large crystals. Extrusive, outside, cool quick, small/no crystals, can be glass-like

500

The process of compaction and cementation is also known as this.

What is lithification?

500

The two types of foliation and what characteristics do they show?

Mineral Alignment- physical layers

 Banding- colored layers

500

This is what happens to rocks when metamorphism grade increases. (as heat and pressure increases)

What is more foliation? more layers!

500

What are the erosional agents?

Water, wind and gravity

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