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Sedimentary
Igneous
Metamorphic
Minerals
Rock Cycle
100
The process of sediment being moved from one location to another.
What is deposition?
100
Two sources of igneous rocks.
What are lava and magma
100
Two things needed to form metamorphic rock.
What are heat and pressure?
100
The scale used to determine minerals hardness.
What is the Moh's Scale?
100
All rocks can be broken into this.
What is sediment?
200
The three processes that create sedimentary rock.
What are compaction, cementation, and re-crystallization?
200
A fine grained extrusive rock that forms as lava cools quickly.
What is obsidian?
200
Sources of metamorphic rock
What are sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic rocks?
200
The shape of the these can help identify a mineral.
What are crystals?
200
Rocks that undergo heat and or pressure will become this type of rock.
What is metamorphic?
300
Sediment, minerals, and dead organisms.
What is the make up of sedimentary rocks?
300
Type of igneous rock formed when magma hardens underground.
What is intrusive rock?
300
Meaning of metamorphosis.
What is change?
300
All minerals have a specific make up of these.
What are chemicals?
300
What Igneous rocks are formed from.
What is lava or magma?
400
Process that leads to the formation of sediment.
What is weathering?
400
Place you would find lots of igneous rocks.
What is a volcano?
400
When marble is formed it comes from this sedimentary rock.
What is limestone?
400
Solid inorganic natural crystals.
What are properties of minerals?
400
Sediments compressed under pressure over time will become this rock type.
What is sedimentary?
500
Clastic, non-clastic, and organic.
What are three types of sedimentary rock?
500
Igneous rocks containing iron.
What are mafic rocks?
500
Regional, dynamic, and contact.
What are types of metamorphism?
500
Rocks are made of minerals and minerals are made of chemicals.
What is the difference between rocks and minerals?
500
The rock cycle does this to rocks.
What is recycling?