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Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rock
Types of Rocks
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This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."

What is Igneous?

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

Obsidian 

What is Igneous

200

Liquid rocks or minerals that is on Earth's surface is called what? 

What is lava?

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

Mudstone

What is a sedimentary rock?

300
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
300
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?
What is coal?
300
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
300

Gabbro

What is Igneous?

400
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
400

The three categories all rocks can be put into.

What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?

400
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
400

Slate

What is metamorphic?

500
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Basalt?
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

Soapstone

What is metamorphic?