Rock Cycle
Igneous Rock
Sedimentary Rock
Metamorphic Rock
vocabulary
100
Three categories rocks can be placed into?
what are Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.
100
igneouse rocks can be found or in these, or around these.
What is a volcano?
100
This is what sedimemtary rock starts off as.
What is sediment?
100
These rocks can become metamorphic rocks:
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
100
A result or product of fire.
What is igneous rock?
200
A sedimentary rock undergoes pressure, is melted and then crystalized (cooled) inside a volcano. This type of rock is called igneous rock. How is metamorphic rock formed?
What is: Any deeply buried rock that undergoes a high temperature and high pressure can become metamorphic rock.
200
Liquid rocks or mierals may be called ______.
What is molten rock?
200
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
200
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form:
What are heat and pressure?
200
A kind of rock that has formed from sediment deposited by water or air.
What is Sedimentary rock?
300
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock.
300
Rock that are found inside a valcano is most likely maded from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
300
The process of compaction and cementation is also known as this. (Worth 500 points)
What is lithification?
300
Sandstone must undergo these to become quartzite:
What are heat and pressure?
300
The Latin prfeix "morph-," taken from the word metamorphic, means to:
What is "to change" or "to form?"
400
________ is fromed when clay undergoes a lot or heat and pressure.
What is slate?
400
igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive and extrusive rocks?
400
The two types of sedimentary rocks are:
What are limestone and chalk?
400
Metamorphic rock is great for building because of it's _________ and ________.
What is it's qualities of strength and durability?
400
The process of compaction and cementation is also known as this. (Worth 500 points)
What is lithification?
500
The reason that rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core:
What is pressure?
500
This type of igneous rocks are made when magma comes out of the earth.
What is intrusive?
500
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants.
What is coal?
500
Foliated and nonfoliated
What are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into?
500
The Latin prfeix "folia-," taken from the word foliated, means:
What is leaf?
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