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Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rock
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
100
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
100
This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
100

These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.

What are sedimentary, igneous rocks?

100
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
200

Liquid rocks below Earth's surface.

What is magma?

200
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
200
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
200
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
200
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
300
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
300

Sedimentary rocks are formed when soil, rocks, or the remains of dead organisms undergo layering and compaction over a long period of time. The mass of the sedimentary rock is equal to the mass of the....

What is the original items making the rock?

300

Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite (metamorphic).

What is heat and pressure?

300

During the rock cycle, ______________ follows erosion. 

What is deposition?

300
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
400
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
400

Describe how sedimentary rock is formed.

What is form when sediments (bits of rock, shells, and remains of living things) are pressed and cemented together over millions of years?

400

Metamorphic rock is changed into igneous rock by



What is melting followed by cooling and solidification?

400

What part of the rock cycle process is MOST closely associated with soil formation

What is weathering?

400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
500

Liquid rock on Earth's surface.

What is lava?

500

What causes sedimentary rock to change into metamorphic rock?

What is heat and pressure?

500

More than a billion years ago, the continent of Africa hit North America, generating enormous pressure and heat while pushing up the Blue Ridge Mountains to a height of 30,000 feet. Most of these mountains have since been worn away by wind, rain, and the growth of living organisms. The order of the rock cycle in this case is BEST described as... (2 answers).

What are metamorphic, sedimentary?

500

 Rocks in and on the Earth are constantly changing because of both physical and chemical processes. The continual change in rocks on Earth is called

What is the rock cycle?

500

List examples of sediments. 

What is the original items making the rock?