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The Rock Cycle
Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Miscellaneous
100
Years of wind, water, and ice breaking down rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
Very hot, liquid rock.
What is magma?
100
These two forces change Igneous or Sedimentary rocks into Metamorphic rocks.
What heat and pressure?
100
These are the layers in which Sedimentary rocks form.
What are Strata?
100
The approximate age of the earth.
What is 4.6 billion years?
200
Smaller pieces of rocks being carried away by wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
200
One of the most common forms of igneous rock.
What is granite?
200
The Washington Monument is made from this Metamorphic rock.
What is marble.
200
These three types of sediments make up sedimentary rocks.
What are rocks, shells, and bones?
200
This is the way light is reflected from a mineral's surface.
What is Luster?
300
This natural wonder was formed by millions of years of erosion by the Colorado River.
What is The Grand Canyon?
300
These are the two types of igneous rocks (in terms of how they are formed).
What are those that form above ground and cool quickly, and those that form below ground and cool slowly? (Extrusive/intrusive)
300
What does magma contribute to the process of creating Metamorphic rocks?
What is extreme heat?
300
The massive rocks in Monument Valley are made from this type of rock.
What is Sandstone?
300
When liquid rock, or magma, slowly cools beneath the Earth's surface, these are often made.
What are crystals?
400
All rocks are made of two or more of these.
What are minerals?
400
Magma that has passed to the surface of the Earth is called this.
What is lava?
400
Heat cannot do this during the formation of a Metamorphic rock, or it will not longer be consider Metamorphic.
What is melt the rock?
400
This sedimentary rock is made from dead plant material which is why it is called a fossil fuel.
What is Coal?
400
Two forms of carbon in rocks.
What are Diamond and Graphite?
500
The Rock Cycle occurs on this layer of the Earth.
What is the Earth's Crust?
500
Granite is composed primarily of these two minerals.
What are Quartz and Feldspar?
500
Marble is formed from this Sedimentary rock.
What is Limestone?
500
Used in Sheetrock and Cement, this is a common Sulfate.
What is Gypsum?
500
Four words used to describe a mineral's Luster.
What are Waxy, Metallic, Earthy, and Vitreous?