Show:
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 rock type word means "resulting from or produced from fire."

What is Igneous?

200

Soft solid rocks or minerals may be called _______

What is molten rock/magma/lava?

200

The breaking down of rocks/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 rock type 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

The process of compaction and cementation makes this type of rock.

What is sedimentary?

300

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

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

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

What is Basalt/Obsidian?

400

This type of rock can contain dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?

What is sedimentary rock?

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

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

What is slate/metamorphic rock?

400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?