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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

When sediment is solidified together to make a rock. 

What is cementation?

300
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
300

This refers to a process where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.

What is weathering?

300
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
400

Name one type of igneous rock we observed in class.

What is Obsidian or Pumice?

400

Name one type of Sedimentary rock we observed in class.

What is Conglomerate or Sandstone?

400

Name one type of Metamorphic rock we observed in class.

What is Gneiss, Marble, or Slate?

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
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
500
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
500
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
500

What are two changes within the rock cycle that are opposite processes?

What is melting and cooling?

500

The type of scientist who studies what the Earth is made of, how it has changed over time, what we can learn from its past

What is a Geologist?