Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Rock Cycle
Classification of Rocks
100

A igneous rock is formed how?

What is magma cooling?

100

A metamorphic rock is formed how?

What is great pressure and heat?

100

A sedimentary rock is formed how?

What is sediments be deposited in Earth's layers and being pushed together by the pressure of the top layers?

100

Magma becomes an igneous when?

What is when it cools?

100

What are the building blocks of rocks?

What are minerals?

200

How are intrusive igneous rocks formed?

What is magma cooling and solidifying under Earth's crust?

200

How are nonfoliated rocks formed?

What is great heat but not a lot of pressure?

200

What are the three types of sedimentary rocks?

What is clastic, chemical, and organic?

200

When metamorphic rocks melt what does it form?

What is magma?

200

This type of igneous rock is course grained?

What are intrusive rocks?

300

What are the two types of igneous rocks?

What is extrusive and intrusive?

300

What are some examples of metamorphic rocks?

What is marble, slate, schist, and quartzite?

300

How are clastic sedimentary rocks formed?

What is sediments buried deep in the Earth and becoming compacted and cemented. Also different grain sizes?

300

Compaction and what form sedimentary rocks?

What is cementation?

300

Sedimentary rocks are divided into these two main groups.

What are clastic and non-clastic rocks?

400

What are some examples of igneous rocks?

What is basalt, obsidian, granite, and pumice?

400

How are foliated metamorphic rocks formed?

What is pressure squeezing minerals in a rock to become aligned. 

400

What are the three ways sedimentary rocks are formed?

What is deposition, accumulation, and precipitation?

400

This rock can form above Earth's surface and below from magma cooling.

What are igneous rocks?

400

_______ and ________ are used to classify rocks.

What is texture and composition?

500

How are extrusive igneous rocks formed?

What is magma cooling quickly on Earth's surface?

500

What are the two types of metamorphic rocks?

What is foilated and nonfoliated?

500

What are some examples of sedimentary rocks?

What is shale, sandstone, breccia, siltstone, and limestone?

500

______________ rocks are the rocks that form from erosion, compaction, cementation, and deposition.

What are sedimentary rocks?

500

This type of igneous rocks cools very quickly.

What are extrusive rocks?