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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
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
Definition of sediment

small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things

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

Definition of cementation

The process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together

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 is also known is this.
What is lithification?
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.

Igneous Rock

Metamorphic Rock

Sedimentary Rock

300

Definition of compaction

the process by which sediments are pressed together under their own weight

400
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
400
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is limestone and chalk?
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?
400

Definition of weathering

The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface.

500
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Basalt?
500
This type of rock is formed from dead trees and plants (also known as fossils) ?
What is coal?
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
Definition of erosion 

Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away.