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Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Rock Cycle
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Rock fragments that are loose or suspended by water, wind, or ice are called?
What is segments.
100
Igneous rock is formed when what cools and solidifies?
What is magma.
100
Sedimentary rocks are made up of particles such as?
Sand and clay.
100
What is the hardest rock?
What is a Diamond.
100
Rocks are made of what?
What is Minerals
200
The earths crust makes up what percent of the Earth's mass?
What is 1%.
200
Rock formed from volcanic ash is called?
What is Tuff.
200
The process of which sediments harden to form sedimentary rocks over time is called?
What is lithification.
200
Where are Metamorphic rocks usually formed?
What is deep inside the earth.
200
Most rocks on earth begin as what type of rock?
What is Igneous.
300
Chemicals in the air combined with precipitation that breaks down minerals and rock is called what?
What is acid rain.
300
Igneous means what?
What is "fiery" - made of fire
300
The bones of organisms buried over time and found in rocks is called what?
What is fossils.
300
The two types of Metamorphic rock are?
What is foliated and non-foliated.
300
New rocks are formed near what?
What is plate boundaries.
400
Large sheets of ice that pick up large rocks and scrape bedrock is called?
What is glaciers.
400
When lava cools it turns into what?
What is Basalt.
400
Sedimentary rocks are divided into groups based on what?
What is composition and texture
400
The word metamorphic means?
What is "changed from".
400
Chemicals in the air combined with precipitation that breaks down minerals and rock is called what?
What is acid rain.
500
What are minerals that are usually transparent and have been cut and polished which people use for jewelry, especially birthstones?
What is gemstones.
500
What are the 2 categories Igneous rocks are classified into?
What is Extrusive and Intrusive.
500
Sedimentary Rocks form layers called?
What is Strata.
500
Metamorphic Rock can originate as other types of metamorphic rock but also what 2 other types?
What is Sedimentary and Igneous.
500
What breaks down rock?
What is heat and pressure.
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