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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

These very cyclical currents drive the entire rock cycle.

What are convection currents?

100
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
200
Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______
What is molten rock?
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 an intrusive igneous rock?

200
There are three different types of sedimentary rock; clastic, chemical, and organic. Clastic are built in layers of sediment, chemical are precipitated from solutions, and organic (like coal) are formed from the remains of once _____________ organisms.

What is living?

300

Molten rock that is currently underground.

What is magma?

300

The process of compaction and _____________ is how sedimentary rocks get created.

What is cementation?

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 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 and extrusive rocks?

400

Because sedimentary rock is formed without heat, these keys into Earth's history may also be found in them.

What are fossils?

400

Metamorphic rock that displays long linear grains of mineral is this type.

What is foliated.

400
This is formed when clay goes under a lot of heat and pressure.
What is slate?
400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
500

This type of igneous rock is made when lava cools under the oceans or flows down volcanoes.

What is Basalt?

500
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?
What is coal?
500

This non-foliated metamorphic rock comes in a variety of colors and has been used throughout history for carving and statuary. The statue of David carved by Michelangelo is made of this.

What is marble?

500

Rocks can undergo extreme heat and pressure if they travel _______________ usually at a subduction zone.

What is underground?

500
Foliated metamorphic rocks get there name for the latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?