Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
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 the types of rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.

What are all types of rocks?

100
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100

This word means "fiery".

What is igneous?

200

Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______

What is molten rock/lava/magma?

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

Rocks are always changing through this system.

What is the rock cycle?

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 sedimentary rock forming is also known is this. (Hint: Two steps of one process)

What is compaction and cementation?

300

Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through these two things 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 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 and extrusive rocks?

400

What is the breaking down of rocks?

What is weathering?

400
Where most metamorphic rock is found.

What is deep underground?

400

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

What is extrusive rock?

500

What is the settling of sediment called?

What is deposition?

500

This process turns metamorphic rock into igneous rock.

What is melting?

500

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

What is pressure?

500

The difference between a rock and a mineral.

What is minerals make up rocks?

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