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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 rocks can become metamorphic rocks.

What are sedimentary, igneous, and 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

Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______

What is magma, lava, or molten rock?

200
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
200

One or both of these two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.

What are heat and pressure?

200

A rock that started as sediment, then underwent pressure, was melted down, and finally cooled and crystalized.

What is an igneous rock?

200
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
300

Rock that is found inside a volcano is made from this type of molten rock.

What is magma?

300
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
300

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

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 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

The breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals on the surface of the Earth by water, ice, wind, and plants.

What is weathering?

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 (metamorphic rock)?

400

Sedimentary rocks get their name from this, the substance they are made of.

What is sediment?

500

This type of igneous rock is made when lava erupts.

What is extrusive igneous rock?

500

The remains of organisms that are found mainly in sedimentary rock.

What are fossils?

500

What type of plate boundary, (convergent, divergent, or transform) are metamorphic rocks commonly formed at?

What are convergent boundaries?

500

A rock with many layers that is formed through the pressure of the higher layers weighing down on the lower layers. 

What is sedimentary rocks?

500

Foliated metamorphic rocks get their name for the latin word folia meaning what?

What is leaf?