The Rock Cycle
Rock Vocabulary
Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rock
Sedimentary Rocks
100
This is the name of the model that describes the ways that rocks are created and changed. (Tan "Rocks" handout in section 1.)
What is the Rock Cycle.
100
In metamorphic rocks, this occurs when mineral grains flatten and line up in a parallel layers. (Metamorphic Rock Reading Packet.)
What is foliated?
100
Obsidian is this type of igneous rock because it forms above the earth's surface, it cools quickly, it has no crystals. (Tan "Rocks Unit 1 Igneous Rock" chart. OR White "Igneous Rocks" worksheet.)
What is volcanic? or What is extrusive?
100
These two words are used to classify the texture in metamorphic rocks. (Tan "Rocks" worksheet, section 3.)
What are foliated and non- foliated.
100
This type of rock makes up about 75% of the rock on the earth's surface. (Tan "Rocks" worksheet, section 4.)
What is sedimentary rock?
200
The process that causes metamorphic rock to turn into magma. (White "The Rock Cycle" worksheet.)
What is the melting process.
200
This type of igneous rock forms underground, cools at a slow rate, and forms large crystals. (Tan "Rock Unit 1 Igneous Rocks" worksheet or vocabulary sheet.)
What is intrusive? or What is plutonic?
200
Granite is this type of rock because it forms below the earth, it cools slowly, and it forms large crystals. (Tan "Rocks Unit 1 Igneous Rock" chart. OR White "Igneous Rocks" worksheet.)
What is plutonic? or What is intrusive?
200
This process can flatten the mineral grains in metamorphic rock without melting them.
What is the process of pressure?
200
These two processes cause sediments to form into sedimentary rocks. (Tan "Rocks" worksheet, section 4. White "Rock Cycle" handout.)
What are the process of pressure and the process of cementation?
300
These are the three major groups of rocks. (Tan "Rocks" worksheet.)
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock?
300
This type of igneous rock forms above ground, cools quickly, and may form small crystals. (Tan "Rocks Unit 1 Igneous Rock" worksheet.)
What is extrusive? or What is volcanic?
300
The two main characteristics used to describe Igneous rock? (White "Igneous Rock" worksheet.)
What is color and texture? Bonus Question: What are two out of the four ways that texture is described?
300
This moves through metamorphic rocks and chemically changes the rock. (Tan "Rocks" worksheet, section #3.)
What is Magma?
300
These are the three categories into which sedimentary rocks are classified. (Reading Packet Section 4 or tan "Rocks" worksheet section 4.)
What are detrital, chemical, or organic?
400
These two processes cause an igneous rock to transform into a metamorphic rock. (White "Rock Cycle" sheet)
What is the process of heat and pressure.
400
These are made up of loose materials such as rock fragments, mineral grains, bits of shell moved by water, ice, or gravity. They often come from already existing rocks that have weathered or eroded or from the remains of organisms. (Tan "Rocks" worksheet, section 4.)
What are sediments?
400
This is what igneous rock formed from. (Tan "Rocks Unit 1 Igneous" worksheet snazzy diagram on page 3.)
What is magma beneath the earth's surface?
400
This kind of texture occurs when mineral grains grow and rearrange themselves but they do not form layers. (Tan "Rocks" worksheet, section 3)
What is non-foliated texture?
400
This type of sedimentary rock forms sediments made up of once-living plants or animals. (Tan "Rock" worksheet section 4.)
What is organic sedimentary rock. Bonus Question (50 points): What is an example of an organic sedimentary rock?
500
Sediments are added to this type of rock and go through the process of compaction and cementation to become Sedimentary rock. (White "The Rock Cycle" worksheet.)
What is igneous rock?
500
This process occurs when rocks are exposed to air, water, or ice and the rock begins to break down chemically and mechanically. As a result, the rock is broken into smaller pieces. (Sedimentary Rock Reading packet.)
What is the weathering process?
500
In addition to cooling rate, the amount of dissolved gas also affects the size of the crystals in igneous rock. When the gas content is higher the crystals will be this size. (White "Igneous Rock" sheet)
What is larger?
500
The three types of rocks from which metamorphic rocks can be made AND the three things that are needed to change these rocks into metamorphic rocks. (Metamorphic Rock reading packet and tan "Rocks" worksheet, section 3)
What are igneous, sedimentary, and other metamorphic rocks? What are heat, pressure, and hot fluids?
500
This describes the two process of cementation and compaction. (Section 4 reading packet.)
Cementation is when the space between grains is large, water and other minerals move through the spaces.As the water and minerals move through the space, they glue the spaces together. Compaction happens when the space between grains is small and the grains are pressed together and stick together through pressure.
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