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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

Small pieces of rocks, like sand, silt, clay, etc. are called what?

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 defines any process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces (sediment)

What is Weathering?

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

The Grand Canyon is composed of this type of rock

What are clastic sedimentary rocks?

300
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
300

What are the 5 steps to forming sedimentary rocks?

What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction and 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 (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
400

What are the 3 types of sedimentary rock? Give examples for each.

What is clastic (shale), chemical (limestone) and organic (coal)

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

These are solid masses made of minerals/mineral-like matter

What are rocks?

400

This process occurs during the dropping of sediments

What is deposition?

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

Sedimentary rocks are considered keys to the past. Which layer of rock would be the oldest?

What is the last/bottom layer?

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 core.
What is pressure?
500

Foliated metamorphic rocks get there name for the latin word folia meaning what?

What is leaf?