Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary and Definitions
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 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?
200
The movement of sediment, as well as the breaking apart and subsequent movement of other rocks, soils.etc., is called this.
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 crystallized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is an 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 rock.
What is magma?
300
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
300
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through this 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 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
The three categories of sedimentary rock are what?
What is clastic, chemical, and organic?
400
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durability and strength?
400
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
400
This is the case where a metamorphic rock is created without the protolith melting into magma.
What is metamorphism?
500
This type of igneous rock is made when magma comes out of the Earth (then called lava)and cools on the surface.
What is extrusive?
500
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?
What is coal?
500
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
500
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
500
Foliated metamorphic rocks get their name for the latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?
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