Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
100
Igneous rocks can be found in or around these.
What are volcanoes?
100
What are the two types of sedimentary rocks?
What are limestone and chalk?
100
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
100
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is an igneous rock?
100
Foliated metamorphic rocks get their name from the Latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?
200
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is basalt?
200
This is what sedimentary rocks starts off as.
What is sediment?
200
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
200
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
200
Metamorphic rocks get their name from the Latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form", or "to change"?
300
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
300
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils).
What is coal?
300
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What is foliated and non-foliated?
300
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
300
Daily Double: a cavity in the ground, that provides a route for surface water to disappear underground.
What is a sinkhole?
400
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive and extrusive?
400
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
400
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What is heat and pressure?
400
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
400
Sedimentary rocks get their name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
500
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock?
500
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
500
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through this to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
500
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
500
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is igneous?
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