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 sediments.

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 processes that is known for turning sediments into sedimentary rock.

What is compaction and cementation?

300

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

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
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
400

Two examples of sedimentary rocks

What is limestone, chert, sandstone and conglomerate?

400

This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.

What is durable and strong (more dense)?

400

Igneous rock cooling quickly above the Earth's surface will show this texture.

What is fine grains?

400

small pieces of rocks, parts of dead ancient organic material, sand, silt or clay

What is sediment?

500

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

What is Basalt?

500

the name of a rock formed from ancient dead trees and plants (also known as fossils)?

What is 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

the bands and stripes of aligned minerals within Metamorphic rocks

What is foliated?

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