Classifying Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
RIDDLES
100
This image represents what process
The Rock Cycle
100
Igneous rock type formed from magma and cooled UNDERNEATH the earth's surface
What is intrusive rock
100
Small particles that make up sedimentary rock.
What is sediments
100
Under pressure, shale forms what metamorphic rock, often used for roofing?
What is slate
100
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200
The type of rock that forms from magma or lava
What is igneous rock
200
The name of this igneous rock
What is obsidan
200
This type of rock can be found on the local streets during the winter.
What is rock salt?
200
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What is heat and pressure
200
4 SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO
300
The 3 major groups of rocks
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
300
This action causes vesicles to form in extrinsic rock when it is formed.
What is gases being released.
300
When sand lithifies it forms this sedimentary rock
Sandstone
300
Texture of this metamorphic rock
What is foliated
300
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400
The least useful way to identify a sedimentary rock
By color of the rock
400
Type of rock formed from lava ON the earth's surface.
What is extrusive rock
400
Type of this sedimentary rock (not name)
What is biochemical
400
Under extreme temperature or pressure limestone becomes this metamorphic rock.
What is marble?
400
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HAMBURGER AND STRAWBERRY SHAKE
500
This is the starting process by which Igneous rock transform to sediment.
What is weathering or erosion
500
Igneous rock that can float in water
What is pumice
500
Sedimentary rock made up of broken pieces of other rocks
What is clastic or conglomerate
500
Regional metamorphism often occurs during this tectonic process
Mountain building
500
RIDDLE
CAR
600
This is the process by which layers of sediment become pressed together over time
What is compaction or lithification
600
What happens to crystals in igneous rocks when lava cools very quickly.
They have very small crystals
600
Two of the three processes by which sediments become sedimentary rocks
What is deposition, compaction, cementation, lithification?
600
How forces are applied to rocks under confining pressure.
Forces are applied equally in all directions
600
DON'T BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU
700
Geologists study this characteristic of a rock in order to identify it.
Geologists study this characteristic of a rock in order to identify it.
What is texture or composition
700
Igneous texture characterized by two different crystal sizes?
What is porphyritic?
700
The most common place for sediment to be deposited
What is the ocean?
700
Primary agent of contact metamorphism
What is heat?
700
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