Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rock
Rock Cycle
Rock Names
100
These geologic features commonly produce igneous rocks.
What is a volcano?
100
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
100
Two processes that rocks must go through to become metamorphic rocks.
What are heat and pressure?
100
The process magma must go through to become an igneous rock.
What is cooling or solidification ?
100
The most common type of coarse grained igneous rock in the continental crust.
What is granite?
200
Another word for molten rock inside the earth.
What is magma?
200
Two processes that form sedimentary rock by breaking down the parent rock and carrying it away.
What is weathering and erosion?
200
A person can tell if a rock is metamorphic by looking at the bands / layers and/or this feature about the rock -shown in this picture:
What is distorted structure?
200
The rock types that can go through heat and pressure to form metamorphic rocks.
What are all rock types? (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic)
200
The sedimentary rock that has rounded pebbles.
What is conglomerate?
300
Igneous rocks can be classified as these two types.
What are intrusive and extrusive?
300
One of the processes that forms crystalline (chemical) sedimentary rocks.
What is evaporation? or What is precipitation?
300
A common metamorphic rock that shows distinct banding-shown here:
What is gneiss?
300
The process that must occur for a rock type to turn into magma.
What is melting?
300
The mineral that is also considered a chemical sedimentary rock.
What is halite?
400
The rock texture when an igneous rock cools slowly.
What is coarse grained (or coarse)?
400
An example of a bioclastic sedimentary rock.
What is (fossil) limestone or coal?
400
The texture of a metamorphic rock that shows layers or banding.
What is foliated?
400
After rocks are broken into sediments, these two processes need to occur in order for the sediments to become sedimentary rock.
What are compaction and cementation?(Or) deposition and burial?
400
The metamorphic rock that limestone turns into.
What is marble?
500
When an igneous rock has holes in it, it can be classified as porous or this term...
What is vesicular?
500
The type of sedimentary rock formed from pieces of rock or rock fragments.
What is clastic?
500
The two distinct minerals found in metamorphic rocks indicating that the rock is metamorphic.
What are garnet and mica?
500
This must happen to a rock in order for weathering and erosion to occur.
What is uplift?
500
The type of sedimentary rock formed from clay.
What is shale?