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 is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
200
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______ or _____.
What is magma and lava?
200
The creation 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
Igneous rocks that have coarse grain structure are probably this.
What is intrusive?
300
Most sedimentary rocks are created through a combination of these two processes.
What are compaction and cementation?
300
This is when grains are lined up in layers
What is foliation?
300
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
300
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
400
This type of rock has coarse grains embedded in fine crystals
What are porphyritic rocks?
400
These are the clasts from largest to smallest
What are gravel, sand, silt, and clay?
400
This rock is formed from metamorphised limestone
What is marble?
400
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
500
What is Basalt?
500
What is quartz sandstone?
500
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These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What is blueschist?
500
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
500
Foliated metamorphic rocks get their name from the Latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?