Vocabulary Terms
This process occurs when rocks are moved from one location to another.
What is "Erosion?"
This process in the Rock Cycle creates Igneous Rock.
What is "Cooling?"
These rocks form directly from liquid magma.
What are "Igneous Rocks?"
This phase change occurs when a solid turns into a liquid.
What is "Melting?"
This type of rock has "layers."
What is "Sedimentary Rock?"
This process occurs when rocks settle to the ground and stop moving?
What is "Deposition?"
This process in the rock cycle creates sediment.
What is "Weathering & Erosion?"
These are the two types of Sedimentary Rocks.
What are "Clastic" and "Chemical?"
This is the phase change that occurs when a liquid turns into a gas.
What is "Evaporation?"
Small crystals are found in this rock because it cools very _______.
What is "quickly?"
This vocabulary term occurs when a rock breaks down, but does not change chemically.
What is "Mechanical Weathering?"
This process in the rock cycle creates metamorphic rock.
What is "Heat & Pressure?"
These are the two types of Metamorphic Rock.
What are "Regional" and "Contact?"
When a gas changes into a liquid, the energy does this.
What is "decrease?"
This is a characteristic of Intrusive Igneous Rock.
What are "Large Crystals?"
These are the curves found in a slow moving river as it descends a gentle slope.
What is a "Meander?"
This process in the rock cycle creates Sedimentary Rock.
What is "Compaction & Cementation?"
These are the two types of Igneous Rock.
What are "Intrusive" and "Extrusive?"
When an object changes from a solid to a gas, the particles do this.
What is "speed up?"
This type of rock has "Foliation" or "Banding."
What is "Metamorphic Rock?"
This is an area underground that is eroded by flowing water and creates large holes.
What is a "Cave?"
This is why Sedimentary Rock does not turn directly into magma.
Answers will vary, but should be something like: "Sedimentary Rocks would be turned into Metamorphic Rocks before they melt into magma."
These types of rock can be made from all three types of rock.
What are "Metamorphic Rocks" & "Sedimentary Rocks?"
This type of metamorphism is found over large areas.
What is "Regional Metamorphism?"