Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Igneous Rocks
The Rock Cycle
Odds and Ends
100
Rocks that are made out of sediments and were pressed into a rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
100
Rocks that were pressed into the Earth's crust and changed by heat and pressure under there.
What is metamorphic rock?
100
Rock that is made when magma erupts and cools.
What is igneous rock?
100
The cycle in which rocks are recycled and change form, shape, or type.
What is the rock cycle?
100
Hot, liquid rock.
What is magma?
200
What sedimentary rocks are made out of.
What is sediment?
200
Heat and pressure.
How do rocks change into metamorphic rocks?
200
An opening in the Earth's crust that allows magma out of the Earth.
What is a volcano?
200
What turns a rock into sediment.
What is weathering and erosion?
200
The scientific name of the process of compacting and cementing.
What is lithification?
300
These are most often found in sedimentary rock.
What are fossils?
300
What happens when a rock is pushed too far down into the Earth.
What is melting?
300
A magma that is inside the volcano that cools and hardens.
What is an intrusive rock?
300
What turns sediment into sedimentary rock.
What is compacting and cementing?
300
These can form in igneous rocks and be very valuable.
What is a diamond?
400
Clastic, chemical, and biochemical.
What are the three types of sedimentary rock?
400
Tectonic plates and continental collisions.
What is another way a metamorphic rock can be created.
400
Magma that erupted out of a volcano and cooled and hardened.
What is an extrusive rock?
400
These can form in igneous rocks when they cool quickly.
What are gas bubbles?
400
This can be a characteristic of igneous rocks when they cool slowly and look shiny.
What is a glassy surface?
500
Layers and layers of sedimentary rock.
What are beds or strata?
500
Metamorphic rocks are only exposed due to...
What is erosion?
500
A type of rock that makes up the Taj Mahal and the Venus de Milo, most often used to make sculptures.
What is marble?
500
When the rock cycle was brought about.
What is the 18th century?
500
The study of rocks.
What is geology?
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