Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rock
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
100
Igneous rocks is made of cooled this.
What is magma?
100
This is what sedimentary rocks are made of.
What is sediment?
100
These types of rocks can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary and igneous rocks?
100
These are the three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100
This rock type means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
200
When igneous rocks are weathered and eroded, what do they turn into?
What is sediments?
200
The movement of sediment by ice, wind, water, or gravity.
What is erosion?
200
These two forces make a metamorphic rock form.
What are heat and pressure?
200
A sedimentary rock that was melted down and then cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
200
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what rock type?
What is sedimentary?
300
This type of igneous rock cools under the Earth's surface (and is what the TSMS front steps are made of!).
What is granite?
300
This is the process of breaking down rocks.
What is weathering?
300
NYC can build tall buildings because of this type of rock.
What is schist (or bedrock)?
300
These are the types of rock that can become sediment by weathering.
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
300
Energy added to atoms and molecules, increasing their motion.
What is heat?
400
This kind of igneous rock cools instantly from a volcano and is black and glassy.
What is obsidian?
400
The sedimentary rock, limestone, (seen on the window ledges of TSMS!) is made up of this.
What are fossils?
400
Metamorphic rock turns into this when it is melted.
What is magma?
400
This is formed when sediments are compacted and cemented.
What is sedimentary rock?
400
Metamorphic rocks get their name from the Greek root morph, meaning this.
What is "shape" or "change"?
500
When igneous rock cools SLOWLY, its crystals are __________.
What is larger?
500
The presence of this is what makes the HCl (hydrochloric acid) bubble.
What is carbon?
500
The PRESSURE that causes metamorphic rock to form comes from this.
The weight of the rock and sediments on top of it.
500
The process by which water, ice, and wind and gravity DROP sediments after erosion.
What is deposition?
500
How a rock feels to the touch (example: rough, smooth).
What is texture?
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