Rock Types
The Rock Cycle
Rock Weathering
Rock Cycle Vocabulary
Rock Cycle Processes
100
Formed from other existing rock
What is Sedimentary Rock?
100
3 Categories of Rock
What is Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic rock?
100
What is something that can cause weathering
Rain, wind, hail, etc.
100
Shiny objects that appear in a rock when magma cools
Crystals
100
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Process by which magma/lava melts and cools
What is igneous rock formation?
200
Produced through lava that exits and cools on earth's surface?
What is Extrusive Igneous Rock?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Heating Metamorphic Rock turns into what next.
Magma
Igneous Rock
200
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering
What is any type of rock?
200
What are the two "c's" of sedimentary rock? These two things cause sedimentary rocks to form.
What is cementation and compaction?
200
Shells and skeletal remains of organisms inside a rock are known by what name?
What is fossils?
300
Formed on or near the earth's surface from the compression of ocean sediments
What is sedimentary rocks?
300
Which layer of sedimentary rock is oldest? 
Layer 4
300
Tiny pieces of rock and dust are called?
Sediments
300
Pumice is a volcanic stone that forms when magma cools and hardens. Pumice is what type of rock?
What is igneous rock?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Crystals are caused by the rate at which liquid rock cools and hardens. Which rocks produce more crystals: rocks that cool quickly or slowly?
What is rocks that cool slowly? They have more time to sparkle!
400
What type of rock is pictured? How do you know?
What is sedimentary rock? Pieces of other rocks and sediments are cemented and compacted together.
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
What is the Rock Cycle endpoint
What is never?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
A natural force that occurs through wind, ice, and water
What is erosion?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Coal is a natural source of energy in the United States. It is found underground through mining processes. Coal is formed from the burial and compaction of layers of dead plant matter. What type of rock is coal classified as?
What is sedimentary rock?
400
These rocks are subject to high heat and pressure
What are metamorphic rocks?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! How can a sedimentary rock turn into an igneous rock?
By melting into magma and forming thru a volcanic eruption
500
TRUE or FALSE: Any type of rock can become any other type of rock.
TRUE!
EXTRA 500 POINTS: Explain how.
500
Breaking down or dissolving of rocks in minerals on Earth's surface
What is weathering?
500
This type of rock is formed deep within the Earth's layers from extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
500
This type of rock has layers. The oldest layers are on the bottom rather than the top
Sedimentary