Classifying Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
The Rock Cycle
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Geologists classify rocks into 3 major groups
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
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Igneous rock that formed from magma and cooled very slowly UNDERNEATH the earth's surface is called ________.
What is intrusive rock
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These small pieces or particles make up sedimentary rock. They can be parts of other rocks, plants, and animal.
What is sediment
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This is how metamorphic rocks are created.
What is extreme heat and pressure
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Magma cools and crystallizes in the cycle forming _______ rock
What is igneous rock
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Molten rock above the surface.
Lava
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This teacher played collegiate volleyball for Bluffton.
Who is Mrs. Mault?
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The type of rock that forms from magma or lava cooling
What is igneous rock
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This type of rock is formed from lava ON the earth's surface.
What is extrusive rock
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The remains of once living organisms can be found in sedimentary rocks.
What are fossils?
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These types of rocks can become metamorphic rocks
What is igneous, sedimentary and other metamorphic rocks. All rocks can become metamorphic rocks.
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Transporting sediments by wind, water, gravity, or glaciers.
What is erosion
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This is Mr. Huber's favorite NFL team.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys
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This is the name for a group of elephants.
What is a parade?
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What type of rock should be where "B" is?
What is Metamorphic?
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The process of magma/lava becoming a rock.
What is cooling?
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This is another term for Lithification.(Think sidewalk)
What is cementation?
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A term that describes a metamorphic rock with banded layers.
What is foliated?
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The layers of sediment become pressed together over time
What is compaction
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Why do intrusive igneous rocks have large crystals?
They cool slowly.
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What type of igneous rock can have air pockets or holes in it?
Extrusive
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What type of rock should be where "A" is?
What is igneous?
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Intrusive igneous rocks are more likely to have these unlike Extrusive igneous rocks.
What are crystals?
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Sedimentary rocks form in this pattern because of sediments being deposited over time.(Think of Ogres and onions)
What are layers?
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The texture of a metamorphic rock that does NOT show banded layers.
What is non-foliated
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The ______ ________ is a series of processes that transform the types of rocks in the earth's crust. It takes a very long time and there are many paths that can be taken.
Rock Cycle
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True or False: The Rock Cycle takes a short amount of time.
False
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Molten rock below the surface.
What is magma?
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Igneous rock cools very quickly. What would you expect it to look like.
Glassy or Fine Grained or have air pockets. Teacher's Discretion.
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This can be determined by the rate at which an igneous rock cools
What is crystal size.
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The process that breaks rocks down into sediments.
What is weathering?
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What does metamorphic mean?
HINT- "It's morphing time!"
What is "to change form"?
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The processes by which sediments become sedimentary rocks
compaction or cementation
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What is the difference between an intrusive igneous rock and an extrusive igneous rock?
Intrusive forms from magma below the surface and extrusive forms from lava above the surface.
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"If you smell what the Rock is cooking" was the catchphrase of the famous wrestler turned movie star/entrepreneur.
Who is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson?