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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
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
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
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what 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 is also known is this.
What is lithification?
300

How do metamorphic rocks form?

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 can sometimes become trapped in sedimentary rocks that come from amimals?

What are fossils?

400

What is an example of metamorphic rock?

slate, marble, Gneiss, jadeite, eclogite

400

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

What is slate or a metamorphic rock?

400

Sedimentary rocks get their name from this, the substance they are made of.

What is sediment?

500

During the starbust lab, what step represented igneous rock?

The last step, Cooling after melting in the microwave 

500

What are two examples of common sedimentary rocks?

 shale, sandstone, siltstone, limestone, rock salt, and iron ore.

500

What are two things that may happen to a metamorphic rock?

Weathering and erosion or melting

500
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
500

What is a mineral?

a natural solid material with particles arranged in a repeating pattern.