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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 process occurs when magma cools

What is Crystallization?

200

Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______

What is magma?

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 processes squeeze sediments and glue them together

What is compaction/cementation?

300

The location where metamorphic rocks are formed

What is deep underground?

300

These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.

What is any type of rock (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic)?

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

These are the three types of sedimentary rocks. 

What are clastic, organic and chemical sedimentary rocks?

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

This is where the molten rock comes from 

What is mantle?

400

Sedimentary rocks get their name from this, the substance that 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

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

What is organic sedimentary rock (coal)?

500
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
500

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

What is pressure at a subduction zone?

500
All the processes in order that occur to create a sedimentary rock

What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation?