Vocab
Type of rocks
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What is Erosion ?
Broken into smaller pieces
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What is lime stone made of?
Sedimentary Rock
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What is two things that happen in Sedimentary stage?
Weather & Erosion
100
What is two things that happen in the Igneous stage?
Melting & Cooling
100
What is two things that happen in the Metamorphic stage?
Heat & Pressure
200
What is a rock?
A solid mixture of crystallized minerals
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What is Marble made of?
Metamorphic
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When Sedimentary rocks melt, what do they become?
Magma
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When Igneous rocks are weathered and eroded, what types of rocks are they called?
Sedimentary Rocks
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What is melted rocks called?
Magma/ Lava
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What is a rock cycle?
The process by which one type of rock changes to another
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What is granite made of?
Igneous
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What is rocks made from sand layers ?
Sedimentary rocks
300
What is the type of rock formed from volcano activity?
Igneous
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When magma cools, what type of rock does it become?
Igneous
400
What is composition?
Types of minerals that make up a rock type
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What is Basalt made up of?
Igneous
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What is rocks formed from cementation ?
Sedimentary
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What is rocks that cool on Earths surface?
Extrusive igneous
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What is the order of Metamorphic to igneous rock?
Melt then cool.
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What is weathering?
The process by which sediment particles are created from wind, ice, water, or chemicals.
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What are most rocks on Earth made from?
Sedimentary
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What is E.D.C.C. stand for?
Erosion, Deposition, Compaction, Cementation
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What is rocks that cool below Earths surface?
Intrusive igneous rock
500
What is foliated and nonfoliated refer to?
Metamorphic