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Sedimentary Rocks
Weathering and Erosion
The Rock Cycle/Minerals
Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
100
Coal is this kind of sedimentary rock.
What is organic?
100
This is the the breaking up of rock or soil at or near the surface of the earth.
What is weathering?
100
The three rocks that form the rock cycle.
What are sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic?
100
Hot liquid rock under the ground.
What is magma?
100
The two main forces in the creation of metamorphic rock.
What are heat and pressure?
200
Sand, silt and clay are all types of this.
What is sediment?
200
A famous canyon formed by weathering and erosion.
What is the Grand Canyon?
200
The term for sediments being "deposited" in layers by rivers or streams.
What is deposition?
200
New Hampshire is is nicknamed after this type of igneous rock.
What is granite?
200
The term for a layered metamorphic rock.
What is foliated?
300
The most recognizable feature of many sedimentary rocks.
What are layers?
300
The transportation of rocks and soil by forces such as water, wind, ice, and/or gravity.
What is erosion?
300
A naturally occurring solid made out of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
300
Igneous rock that is formed in the earth.
What is intrusive?
300
A non-foliated rock that is used for statues.
What is marble?
400
A clastic sedimentary rock formed mostly of sand.
What is sandstone?
400
Two of the forces that contribute to physical weathering.
What are wind, water and/or ice?
400
Fool's Gold.
What is pyrite?
400
Most igneous rocks come from these. There are over 1,500 in the world.
What are volcanoes?
400
If you aren't mean, then you are this type of metamorphic rock.
What is gneiss?
500
This feature of sedimentary rocks has helped us understand the history of life on Earth.
What are fossils?
500
A type of rain that forms limestone caves.
What is acid rain?
500
Two of the ways used to identify a mineral.
What are hardness, color, luster and magnetism?
500
Cooling lava forms this type of igneous rock.
What is extrusive?
500
The heat and pressure that form metamorphic rocks can be caused by the movements of these plates.
What are tectonic plates?