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Sedimentary Rock
Igneous Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
100
One clue to look for when trying to determine if a rock is sedimentary or not is sand and this other material.
What is pebbles?
100
These are the two materials that can form igneous rock.
What is lava and magma?
100
Morph means to do this.
What is change?
100
Sediment gets deposited, compacted, and cemented to form this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
100
The wearing away of breaking down of rocks by wing, water, and chemicals.
What is weathering?
200
Once living creatures can be found in samples of limestone and also help us to identify rocks as sedimentary.
What is fossils?
200
Holes in Igneous rock are caused by these, which also are a clue to helping identify rocks as Igneous.
What is gas bubbles?
200
One clue to help us identify metamorphic rocks describes the alternating colors of minerals that have been squeezed together.
What is ribbonlike layers?
200
Heat and pressure added to existing rocks form this type of rock.
What is metamorphic?
200
The movement of segments produced after weathering, usually by wind, water and gravity.
What is erosion?
300
The name of the sedimentary rock that is made of sand and pebbles.
What is Conglomerate?
300
Igneous rocks are formed by this process.
What is cooling?
300
The processes that form metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
300
Cooling lava or magma form this type of rock.
What is Igneous?
300
When sediments are dropped off in a new location after erosion.
What is deposition?
400
This type of sedimentary rock is formed from the mud of ocean floors and may contain fossils.
What is limestone?
400
The two types of Igneous rocks refer to where the rock is formed.
What is extrusive and intrusive?
400
What are metamorphic rocks formed from.
What is other rocks?
400
Rocks that get weathered and eroded form this type of material.
What is sediment?
400
Formed when rocks undergo heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic rocks?
500
This is the material that forms sedimentary rocks.
What is sediment?
500
The Igneous rock Obsidian has this type of appearance, which is also a clue for identifying rocks as Igneous.
What is glassy surface?
500
This type of metamorphic rock has visible layers and was once the igneous rock granite. Its name has a silent "G".
What is Gneiss?
500
When rocks get buried deep in the earth's crust they melt into this type of material.
What is magma?
500
A diagram used to show how rocks are constantly being recycled.
What is the rock cycle?