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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
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 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

Lithification is a process that glues loose sediment together, what other name is this process known as?

What is  compaction and cementation

300

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

What is heat and pressure?

300

Grains of rock are removed from their source by what?

Erosion

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

Name 2 specific types sedimentary rock.

Limestone, sandstone, shale, conglomerat, gypsum

400
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
400

What are the two main types of energy involved in the rock cycle?

What is solar energy and Earth's internal energy?

400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
500
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Basalt?
500

Name three agents of weathering, that can break rock down?

Rain, wind, ice, running water, chemical weathering

500

Where does the pressure come from that causes metamorphic rock to form?

What is the weight of the rock above it.


500

This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's mantle.

What is Subduction?

500

How can rock that contains seafloor fossils be located at the top of a mountain?

What is uplift?