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
process by which sediment is removed from its source and moved to a different location is what?
What is erosion?
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
What is the process in which layers in sedimentary rock are formed?
What is stratification?
300
Rock that is found inside a volcano (Intrusive igneous rock) is most likely make from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
300
The process in which sediment is dropped and comes to rest is called
What is deposition?
300
metamorphic rock in which mineral grains are NOT arranged in bands is what?
What is nonfoliated?
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
layers found in sedimentary rocks are called what?
What is strata?
400
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
400
What is the process by which new rock is made from old rock
What is rock cycle?
400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
500
When magma cools quickly, what kind of texture does rock have?
What is Fine grain
500
How are Sedimentary rocks formed?
Ex. Sediments, layers, over time become sedimentary rock.
500
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
500
This is a naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals and organic matter
What is rock?
500
What is the process in which rocks change shape is called
What is deformation?