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Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rock
Rock Cycle
Erosion and More
100
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
100
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
100
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
100

A mineral or rock has value that we dig out of the earth.

What is ore?

100

the type of movement when soil is slowly moving down a surface usually because of freezing and unfreezing is called what?

What is creep?

200

Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______

What is magma of lava?

200
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
200
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
200
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
200

The two main methods of breaking down rocks is called?

What is Physical and Chemical weathering?

300

Magma is found where on the planet?

Where is under the crust?

300
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
300
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
300
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
300

A method to determine age of a fossil by depth of the rock

What is relative dating?

400
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
400
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is limestone and chalk?
400
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
400
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
400

When rocks on the surface crack because of unequal pressure

What is exfoliation?

500
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Basalt?
500
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?
What is coal?
500
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
500
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
500

This is a device used to determine types of rock using gravity

What is gravimeter?