Vocabulary
Materials & Processes
Article Know How
Rock Out
Sneak Peak
100
A region of rock that formed together as a single rock type.
What is a rock formation?
100
Igneous rocks are made from this material.
What is cooling magma?
100
**500 Points
Iceland is the only place in the world where this structure can be observed above the surface of the ocean.
Mid-Atlantic Ridge (D1)
100
How did this Rock form?
Double points if you can name the specific rock. 
What is sedimentary rock & conglomerate.
100
A geology student describes a rock sample she is studying in class. The rock sample is igneous rock, but the student wonders if the material that it formed from was part of a sedimentary rock formation millions of years ago. Could this be correct? Could the material for igneous rock come from sedimentary rock?
Yes, if sedimentary rock is moved below Earth’s outer layer and exposed to energy from Earth’s interior, it can melt into liquid rock and form igneous rock.
200
a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like.
Cross Section.
200
What are the three steps to WED with the slogans included.
Weathering (Breaks it), Erosion (Takes it) and Deposition (Drops it).
200
**1000 Points**
What was the name of the scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift in 1915.
Alfred Wegener (F1)
200
How did this Rock form?
Double points if you can name specific rock.
Igneous Rock, Obsidian.
200
On the island of Hawaii, Keanu notices that the sand on the beach is black, the same color as the rock formations on the island. Keanu realizes the sand used to be part of the rock formations. How did material from the rock formations turn into sand?
Wind and rain interacted with the rock, breaking it into small pieces.
300
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
300
Sedimentary rocks are made from this process.
What is compacting and cementing?
300
What is Devil's tower made of and why is it surrounded by flat land?
Devils Tower formed when magma pushed up through Earth’s surface and cooled into hard rock (Igneous). Over time, the land around it eroded away, leaving a tower looming over a flat landscape.
300
Name one of these Rock stars.
300 points per rocker.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.
300
On vacation at a lake, Saira’s mom sees an interesting-looking rock formation. Saira just learned about rocks in geology class and tells her mom that the formation is made of gneiss, a type of metamorphic rock. How did this metamorphic rock form?
It was heated and put under high pressure.
400
The ability to make things move or change.
What is energy?
400
What do you call magma that has cooled to create Rock underground?
Intrusive Igneous Rock
400
How many of the 8 major Hawaiian Islands once had an active volcano?
Each island has, or once had, at least one big active volcano on it. (E1)
400
Name a movie you can find this Rock in.
400 points per movie.
400
Giovanni and his family go on a trip and they drive over a mountain range. Giovanni wonders how the rock they see as they drive over the mountain range might be different when they drive back home next week. What would you tell Giovanni about how the rock will change?
The rock is not likely to change very much. Most rock transformation processes happen very slowly.
500
One of the many different types of matter that make up rocks.
Mineral
500
Metamorphic rocks are formed from this material and process.
What is existing rock under extreme heat and pressure?
500
1. __________the process that pushes rock formations from down below up to Earth’s surface.
2.During ___________, one plate, along with all of its rock formations, moves under another plate and farther inside Earth.
1. uplift
2. subduction?
500
What two plates collided to form the Rocky Mountains?
The Pacific Plate and North American Plate.
500
Africa and Europe are very close to each other, but they used to be far apart. Which diagram above shows what happened to the plates that Africa and Europe are part of?
Diagram C.