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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, and most metamorphic 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

Igneous rocks that form under the surface are called _____.

What is intrusive?

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

These are found only in sedimentary rocks.

What are fossils?

300
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
300
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
300

Metamorphic rocks get their name partially from the Latin word morph, meaning this.

What is "form" or "to change"?

400

Extrusive igneous rocks typically have a _____ crystal size.

What is small (or smaller)?

400

Sedimentary rocks may have distinct layers, which are also called _________.

What are strata?

400
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
400
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
400

Rocks are classified mainly based on their ___________.

What is texture?

500

You can often identify an intrusive igneous rock by its ___________.

What are interlocking crystals?

500
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
500
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
500

The elements that make up the rocks are not being created or destroyed, instead, they are being _____________ throughout the rock cycle.

What is recycled?

500

Foliated metamorphic rocks get their name from the Latin word folia, meaning what?

What is leaf?