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
Igneous rock starts as __________
What is molten (liquid) 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
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten (liquid) rock.
What is magma?
300
Requires compaction and cementation to make this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
the steps to turn metamorphic rock to igneous
what is melting into magma and cooling into rock?
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
Only type of rock that we eat and used to lower the temperature of water's freezing point.
What is halite or salt?
400
molton rock that has reached the surface of the earth
What is lava?
400
This is how all rock started.
What is magma?
400
This is the process of breaking down rock.
What is weathering?
500
A type of liquid rock found on the surface of Earth
What is lava?
500
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?
What is coal?
500
the process of putting sediment down
What is deposition?
500
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
500
these are agents of erosion
What are wind, water, and ice?
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