Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Vocabulary
Wild Card
100

Igneous rocks can be found in and around these.

What is a volcano?

100

These two things are required for metamorphic rocks to form.

What are heat and pressure?

100

This is what sedimentary rocks begin as.

What is sediments?

100

This is a repeated sequence of events.

What is a cycle?

100

The three categories that rocks can be put into.

What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?

200

These two things are required for igneous rocks to form.

What is melting and cooling?
200

For sedimentary rock to become metamorphic rock it requires.

What is heat and pressure?

200

The movement of sediment from one place to another.

What is erosion?

200

The cycle where Earth's rocks change from one type to another.

What is the rock cycle?

200

These types of rock can be urned into sediments by weathering.

What is any type of rock?

300

This is the thing igneous and metamorphic rocks have in common when they are being formed.

What is extreme heat?

300

(True or false) Any type of rock can become a metamorphic rock.

What is true?

300

The two things needed for sedimentary rocks to form.

What is compaction and cementation?

300

Rock that is formed when particles of other rocks are deposited in layers and then cemented together.

What is sedimentary?

300

The process of rock being broken down.

What is weathering?

400

Rock that is found inside of a volcano is most likely made from this kind of molten rock.

What is magma?

400

These are the kinds of rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.

What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?

400

These are two types of sedimentary rocks.

What is limestone and sandstone?

400

Rock that is formed deep underground from heat and pressure?

What is metamorphic?

400

This is how rocks on the surface of the get pushed into Earth's core.

What is pressure?

500

Igneous rock can be classified into these two types.

What is intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite)?

500

These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.

What are foliated and non-foliated? 

500

This process must always happen first in order for sedimentary rocks to begin forming.

What is weathering?

500

Rock formed when lava or magma cools, forms crystals, and solidifies.

What is igneous rock?

500

The process when sediments and minerals are dropped in a new location.

What is deposition?