Rock types
Vocabulary
Properties
100

Rock formed from the lava cooling and hardening.

What is basalt?

100

Rocks like basalt, scoria, and tuff are formed here

What is a volcano?

100

What is one feature of the rock scoria?

What is Red, holes, or bumpy?

200

Rock formed from hot bubbly lava near the top of the volcano

What is scoria?

200

Large gray object often covering the entire sky during an eruption.

What is an ash cloud?

200

What is one feature of basalt?

What is smooth gray, or solid?

300

Rock formed from the volcanic ash after an eruption

What is tuff?

300

Before the lava erupts from the mouth of the volcano, inside the center of the volcano it is called

What is magma?

300

What is one feature of tuff?

What is smooth, white, yellowish, gray, small?

400

When placed in water, this rock causes bubbles in the water.

What is scoria?

400

Hot, bubbly, red flowing from the mouth of a volcano.

What is lava?

400

I am a white smooth colored rock,easily breakable, and can be used to write.

What is tuff?

500

What is the name of the volcano that erupted in may of 1980?

What is Mount St. Helens?

500

A scientist who studies rocks.

What is a geologist?

500

I am yellow, smooth, moon shaped, my skin peels off, and I am mushy on the inside. What am I?

What is a banana?