Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rock
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
100
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
100
Small particles of rocks which have been weathered and eroded.
What is sediment?
100
Types of rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary and igneous?
100
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100
A word meaning "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 sediment by gravity or water.
What is erosion?
200
The two things 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.
What is a igneous rock?
200
A type of rock made from sediments.
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
When the river carrying the sediments slows down and the sediments sink to the bottom.
What is deposition?
300
Where metamorphic rocks are formed.
What is below the surface of the Earth?
300
The process which breaks up rocks.
What is weathering?
300
The meaning of the latin word morph, from which metamorphic rocks get their name.
What is "form" or "to change"?
400
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive and extrusive rocks?
400
The process which squeezes water out from between the sediments.
What is compaction?
400
A property which makes metamorphic rock great for building.
What is strong?
400
Biological, physical and chemical.
What are 3 types of weathering?
400
Ways of describing what a rock is like.
What are properties?
500
Molten rock which has erupted from a volcano.
What is lava?
500
The process which glues the sediments together.
What is cementation?
500
Interlocking crystals.
What is a feature of metamorphic rocks?
500
An igneous rock that was formed outside a volcano.
What is extrusive?
500
The type of cooling which produces small crystals.
What is fast cooling?
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