Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Igneous
Rock Cycle
All subject
100
Forms when over time sediments get compacted, and then cemented together.
What is a clastic rock.
100
Natural solid material that metamorphic rocks are made from.
What is already existing rock.
100
Process when magma or lava cools and crystallizes.
What is igneous rocks formation.
100
A process in which pressure from upper layers of sediment pushes down on the lower layers making sediments to form solid rock.
What is compaction.
100
Rock that has round smooth rock fragments and is made when edges are smoothed out in stream or river.
What is a conglomerate.
200
Type of sedimentary rock that can have seashells or fossils in it.
What is biochemical rock.
200
When high pressure and temperature affect large areas of Earths crust.
What is regional metamorphism.
200
Forms above ground from lava.
What is extrusive rock.
200
Fragments that make up a rock.
What are grains.
200
A common glassy black volcanic glass.
What is obsidian.
300
Sedimentary rocks are changed by what.
What is weathering and erosion.
300
Magma turns already existing rock into metamorphic rock when magma comes in contact with it.
What is contact metamorphism.
300
Cools slowly and creates large crystals.
What is intrusive rock.
300
Weathering, compaction, erosion and more.
What are processes involved in the rock cycle.
300
When rocks settle out of a river.
What is deposition.
400
The three ways sedimentary form.
What is sediments being pressed or cemented together,sediments forming from a solution, and water being evaporated and leaving behind crystals.
400
Factors that bend and fold rocks without melting.
What is temperature and pressure.
400
Specific type of rock that forms when lava cools quickly.
What is volcanic glass.
400
Continuous changing and reforming of rocks.
What is rock cycle.
400
Process when minerals from rocks that are now in water crystallize out between grains.
What is cementation.
500
Sedimentary rock that has angular fragments and coarse grains.
What is breccia.
500
Categories to classify metamorphic rocks.
What is foliated or nonfoliated.
500
Intrusive and extrusive.
What is category's under igneous
500
A mixture of minerals, organic matter, volcanic glass, or other materials.
What is a rock.
500
Rocks that have mineral grains with a random interlocking texture.
What is nonfoliated.
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