Vocabulary
Rock Cycle
General
Type of Rock
True / False
100

Define Lithification

What is the process by which sediment becomes sedimentary rock

100

Define the Rock Cycle

What is the process by which the three basic types of rock can be converted into one another?

100

Name the three basic types of rocks

What is Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic Rocks

100

this rock forms from magma underground

What is an intrusive igneous rock

100

Metamorphic rock can become Sedimentary rock

True or False

What is True (by Weathering)

200

Define Bedding Plane

What is a distinct separation between two rock strata

200

Igneous and Sedimentary Rock when subjected to heat and/ or pressure is converted into

What is Metamorphic Rock

200

Which rock type needs one or both pressure and heat to form

What is  Regional Metamorphic Rock

200

This rock forms from lava, above ground

What is Extrusive igneous rock

200

Sand has larger particles than silt

True / False

What is True

300

Define Nonconformity

What is the contact between igneous or metamorphic rock and sedimentary rock above it

300

Metamorphic Rock once melted by magma, eventually come up to the surface a lava, once cooled and freezes becomes

What is igneous Rock

300

Describe a Clastic Sedimentary Rock

What is a sedimentary rock made of sediments that came from weathering and Erosion 

300

The Type of rock this is:


What is Sedimentary Rock

300

Igneous Rock is more likely to contain fossils than Sedimentary rock.


True / False

What is False

400

Define Paraconformity

What is a bedding plane that is thought to be an unconformity but does not look like one

400

List the three steps to lithification

What is

1. the sediments must be compacted

2. water must be removed

3. the sediments must be cemented together

400

List the simplest way for an igneous rock to become sedimentary rock (list each thing)

1.  Weathering

2.  Lithification


see diagram on page 107

400

The type of rock this is:


What is Metamorphic Rock

400

Lithification is always a very slow process


True / False

What is False (it can be very fast depending on the conditions)

500

Define Principle of Superposition 

What is in a series of rock strata, the oldest stratum is at the bottom, and the rocks get progressively younger the higher they are in the series

500

Whether it is Igneous, Metamorphic, or Sedimentary this process is needed for Sediments

What is Weathering

500

Properly describe Coal

What is an organic sedimentary rock  but can be turned into anthracite coal, which is a metamorphic rock that is almost completely made of carbon.



500

This rock is described as a 


What is a dike?  (also made from an intrusive igneous rock)

500

A Chemical Sedimentary Rock is formed by particles that either precipitate out of water or are chemically altered in the presence of water.

True / False


What is True