Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
100
These types of rocks cool below the Earth's surface.
What is intrusive?
100
This type of sedimentary rock found throughout Florida often forms with the bodies of dead sea life.
What is limestone?
100
Granite turns into this type of rock when undergoing a metamorphic process.
What is gneiss?
100
The two processes necessary for the formation of igneous rock are ___________ and ____________.
What is melting and cooling?
100
This is an area where a set of deep cracks form in tectonic plates, exposing rocks normally under the surface.
What is a rift zone?
200
This type of igneous rock is formed from "foamy" lava.
What is pumice?
200
Sedimentary rocks are named for the __________ and _______ of fragments they contain.
What is size and type?
200
Metamorphic rocks are primarily formed by __________ and ___________.
What is heat and pressure?
200
Breaking up an igneous rock and having these pieces cemented back together will create this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
200
This is the process in which tectonic plates lower parts of the crust deep into the earth.
What is subsidence?
300
This type of igneous rock is often made into counter tops.
What is granite?
300
This type of rock is created when clay is pressed together and dries.
What is shale?
300
Metamorphic rocks can turn into these types of rocks.
What is any type of rock?
300
These are the three primary processes that help to form sedimentary rocks.
What is weathering, erosion, and deposition?
300
This process can be modeled by blowing on an outstretched hand.
What is erosion?
400
This type of igneous rock cools rapidly, resulting in "one large crystal"
What is obsidian?
400
This makes up sedimentary rocks.
What is sediment?
400
Shale exposed to metamorphic processes turns to this type of rock.
What is slate?
400
This is the step between weathering and deposition.
What is erosion?
400
This is the rising of regions of the crust to higher elevations.
What is uplift?
500
This is how extrusive rocks cool.
What is on the surface?
500
Sedimentary rocks form when sediment is _________ and ________ together.
What is pressed and cemented?
500
The structure of metamorphic rock is fundamentally __________ by the process.
What is changed?
500
The rock cycle is __________.
What is continuous?
500
This is the process of turning into rock.
What is lithification?
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