Types Of Rocks
Identifying Characteristics
From One Part To Another
Miscellaneous #'s
According to SandAtlas.org
Common Uses Of Rocks
100

This type is created by compacting sediments together.

What is sedimentary rock?

100

This is the characteristic when multiple sandy pebbles are compacted into a rock.

What are sand and pebbles?

100

Melting turns anything on the rock cycle into this.

What is magma?

100

The number of obsidian rock classifications.

What are 46?

100

This rock is used at power plants to make electricity. You also get it if you are on the naughty list in December.

What is coal?

200

This rock is created by cooling slowly inside a volcano.

What is intrusive igneous rock?

200

You can sometimes see these in sedimentary rock, like _____'s of plants.

What are fossils?

200

You have to do this to turn igneous and sedimentary into metamorphic.

What is put greater temperature and pressure?

200

The number of sedimentary rock classifications.

What are 30?

200

This rock is used as the coating of many gums.

What is limestone?

300

This rock is created by cooling lava outside of the volcano.

What is extrusive igneous rock?

300

This is found on obsidian.

What is a glassy surface?

300

This is the process that turns soil into sediments. 

What is erosion and deposition?
300

The number of metamorphic rock types.

What are 25?

300

This rock is very commonly used in architectural construction and monuments. 

What is granite?

400

These rocks are created by putting heat and pressure on other rocks.

What is metamorphic rock?

400

These are made when gases dissolve in magma when almost erupting.

What are gas bubbles?

400

The process that turns sedimentary back to soil.

What is exposure and weathering?

400

The total number of rock classifications.

What are 101?

400

For the most part, these two rocks are used for construction.

What are sandstone and quartzite?

500

Name one of the two types of metamorphic rock.

What are Foliated Metamorphic Rock and Non Foliated Metamorphic Rock?

500

This is what happens as a result of rocks being compressed into metamorphic.

What are ribbon-like layers?

500

The process that turns sediments into sedimentary rock.

What is lithification?

500

The number of rock classification that start with the letter t.

What are 10?

500

This rock can be a component of bricks and cement.

What is shale?