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Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rock
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
100

Igneous rocks can be found around or in these geologic formations.

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 term refers to a region of rock formed together.

What is a rock formation?

200

Liquid rocks or minerals may be called _______

What is magma?

200

These are the processes that form sedimentary rocks.

What are compaction and cementation?

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

This term refers to the type of plate boundary where two plates that move towards each other.

What is convergent?

300

This energy source drives the formation of igneous rock.

What is the Earth's interior?

300

The process of sediment forming is this.

What is weathering?

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

This term refers to a small part that represents a whole.

What is a sample?

400

Igneous rocks can be formed in these two locations.

What is at the surface and below the Earth's surface?

400

This energy source drives the formation of sedimentary rock.

What is the sun?

400

This is the process that can move rocks beneath the Earth's surface.

What is subduction?

400

This is formed when sandstone goes under a lot of heat and pressure.

What is metamorphic rock?

400

Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance 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 feature is ONLY found preserved inside sedimentary rock.

What are fossils?

500
This is the process that exposes metamorphic rock to the Earth's surface.

What is uplift?

500

This is how rocks move between Earth's layers.

What is plate motion?

500

True or false: all rocks are always changing.

What is true?