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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
Light colored igneous rocks that are rich in elements such as aluminum, potassium, silicon, and sodium.
What is felsic?
200
Molten, or liquid, rock material
What is magma?
200
The movement of sediment to new locations.
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 inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
200
The type of igneous rock formed when magma pushes into surrounding rock below the Earth's surface.
What is intrusive?
300
Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
300
The most obvious characteristic of sedimentary rock.
What are layers?
300
To be considered metamorphic, rocks must stay ______ as they change.
What is solid?
300
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary rock?
300
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morphic, meaning this.
What is form?
400
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive and extrusive rocks?
400
The process by which sediment grains are pressed together by dissolved mineral material that crystallizes between grains
What is cementation?
400
This property of a rock may change during the formation of a metamorphic rock.
What is texture?
400
This is how mountains form and various rocks get back to the surface.
What is uplift?
400
Foliated metamorphic rocks get there name for the latin word folia meaning what?
What is leaf?
500
This forms when lava cools so rapidly that atoms do not form well-organized crystal structures.
What is volcanic glass?
500
The process by which sediment is changed into sedimentary rock as grains are compressed by the weight of the material above them.
What is compaction?
500
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and non-foliated?
500
A rock can go through the rock cycle this many times.
What is infinite?
500
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?