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Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rock
Weathering & Erosion
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

This movement of weathered rocks by nature or natural forces is called this.

What is erosion?

100

This word means "to change from one form into another."

What is Morph?

200
To become igneous rocks, the lava must do what?

What is cool and harden?

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

The process where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces is called this. 

What is weathering?

200
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
300

Rock that is found inside a volcano that is molten rock, is usually called what?

What is magma?

300

The process after compaction is known as?

What is cementation.

300

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

What is heat and pressure?

300

Three examples of ways rocks can be weathered. 

What is wind, water, animals, plants, and humans?

300

This is the scientific term for roots that break apart rocks?

What is "root wedging?

400

Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types. T or F

T- intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?

400

These are usually found in sedimentary rocks?

What are fossils?

400
To change into something else is called what?

What is morph?

400

These are three ways erosion can occur?

What are by humans, wind, water, and other natural forces?

400

This is the term for when ice breaks apart rocks.

What is "ice wedging?"

500

This type of black igneous rock is made when magma comes out of the Earth.

What is Basalt?

500

This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also forms a dark/black line in the sedimentary rock).

What is coal?

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

These are the scientific three terms of weathering.

What is mechanical, chemical, biological?

500

This is the scientific name of the "sphere" that includes the crust, mantle, and core.

What is geosphere?