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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

A substance found in rocks that always contain certain elements found in definite proportions/chemical composition. 

What is Mineral?

200

Igneous rocks get their name from a Latin word that means________

What is fire?

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

Wind, water, ice and gravity cause rocks to change.  

What is weathering?

300

Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely made from this type of molten rock.

What is magma?

300

Fossils are only found in sedimentary rocks?

What is true?

300

The process in which existing minerals are changed into new minerals due to the influence of extreme pressure or temperature. 

What is to metamorphosis?

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

The process in which sediment(s) is laid down in new locations. 

What is deposition?

400

A metamorphic rock changes into an igneous rock by what two processes? 

What is melting and cooling?

400
A scientist that studies rocks and the Earth. 

What is a geologist?

400

Forms from magma and erupts onto the Earth's surface.  

What is extrusive igneous rock?

500

Granite is an igneous rock with visible crystals.  These crystal cooled ______________ over time.

What is slowly?

500

The process that presses sediments together.  

What is compaction?

500

An extremely hot material that is needed to help metamorphic rocks form in this area in the Earth. 

What is the fiery hot magma in the Earth's mantle. 

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

A solid material made up of two or more minerals 

What is a rock?