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 how sediments are made from rocks and minerals.
What is weathering.
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 (or lava, or 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
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
300
_____ determines the sizes of crystals that are found in igneous rocks.
What is the speed it cools.
300
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
300
These are the 3 types of metamorphism.
What are contact, regional, and hydrothermal.
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 and extrusive rocks?
400
What three types of sedimentary rock are there?
What are clastic, chemical, and organic.
400
A metamorphic rock has this kind of texture when it has long, wavy layers.
What is foliated.
400
Magma is formed by this process.
What is melting.
400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
500
A rock that has two distinct grain sizes has this kind of texture.
What is porphyritic texture.
500
This rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?
What is coal?
500
This type of metamorphism has high temperature and medium to low pressure.
What is contact metamorphism.
500
As you move towards the center of the Earth, what two values increase?
What are pressure and temperature.
500
These are the 6 sizes of sediments from smallest to largest.
What are clay, silt, sand, pebble, cobble, boulder.
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