Vocabulary #1
All about Rocks
Vocabulary # 2
Rock Concepts
100
All rocks are made of natural solid substance called?
What is Minerals
100
What does a foliated metamorphic rock have
What is the layers or bands that you can see.
100
The natural process of breaking rock into smaller pieces is called
What is Weathering
100
Chemical Sedimentary Rocks can be made from
What is animal shells
200
Hot melted rock deep within the Earth is called?
What is Magma
200
The Rock Cycle helps Scientist.....
Understand how rocks change from one kind to another.
200
Layers of sediment build up on the Earth's Surface over millions of years. This is called
What is Sedimentation
200
Where would igneous rocks most likely form by?
What is Volcano
300
Sometimes this melted rock pushes up into the Earth's cooler crust and forms?
What is Igneous Rock
300
Extrusive igneous rocks have what type of texture
What is fined granied
300
Two types of sedimentary rock are formed this way. One type is made of sediments that were weathered, moved, and deposited in layers this type is called..... Another types type is formed by minerals that dissloved in water and came back out....
What is Clastic Rock & Chemical Rock
300
Limestone is an example of what type of rock?
What is Chemical Sedimentary Rock
400
When these pieces finally stop moving and drop to the ground
What is Deposition
400
What happens whena ocean plate and continental plate collide
What is pushed downward
400
Metamporhic Rock is formed witin the Earth's crust under intense heat and pressure, by a process called
What is Metamorphism
400
Magma pushes toward the surface of Earth because
melted rock is less dense than solid rock
500
When the volcano erupts, this melted rock flows over the surfact of Earth in the form of
What is Lava
500
The building blocks of rocks are
What is minerals
500
Scientists usa a diagram to show how rocks change from one kind to another.
What is Rock Cycle
500
Name the rocks in order to show sedimentary rock formation process.
Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, and Cementation
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