Rocks
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Processes of the Rock Cycle
100

A mineral is naturally formed solid matter with this structure/shape.

What is crystal?

100

These form when magma cools very slowly.

What are large crystals?

100
Sedimentary rock forms when what collects and hardens into new rock?
What is sediment
100
Metamorphic means to?
What is change.
100

Sedimentary rock can become what kind or kinds of rock?

What is any kind.

200

A rock is a solid mixture of crystals of one or more what?

What are Minerals

200
Liquid rock found inside the earth is called what?
What is magma
200
Sediment stacks up in layers that are ______________ together.
What is cemented.
200
Metamorphic rock is formed by heat and what?
What is pressure.
200

This geoscience process causes the physical change in metamorphic rock.

What is extreme pressure?

300
The chemical makeup of a rock is called what?
What is composition.
300

Molten rock that is pushed to the earth's surface is called what?

What is lava

300
Sedimentary rock often forms at the bottom of _____________ as it is depostited by rivers and streams.
What is lakes or seas.
300

Metamorphic rock can be formed only where on the Earth? 

What is inside.

300

The geoscience process in which sediment is being moved

What is erosion.

400
The continual process by which new rock forms from old rock material is called what?
What is the rock cycle.
400

The type of igneous rock that forms from cooled lava.

What is extrusive igneous rock?

400
Sediment is usually formed by ____________ and erosion.
What is weathering.
400
Where does the pressure come from that causes metamorphic rock to form?
What is the weight of the rock above it.
400

Water, wind, heat and ice break down rocks by what geoscience process?

What is weathering.

500
Crystals grow as melted rock does what?
What is cools.
500

The type of igneous rock that forms from cooled magma.

What is intrusive igneous rock?

500
Sedimentary rocks that have the shape of once living things.
What are fossils.
500
What do foliated metamorphic rocks have?
What is bands.
500

Water, ice, and wind drop newly formed sediments by what geoscience process?

What is deposition.