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Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
The Rock Cycle
Minerals
100
This type of igneous forms when magma cools below the earth's surface.
What is intrusive rock?
100
Sedimentary rocks are responsible for being built into what?
What is building stones, chalk, highways?
100
The meaning of metamorphic.
What is to change in form?
100

How do sedimentary rocks change into metamorphic rocks?

Heat and Pressure
100
What is a mineral?

 A naturally occurring chemical compound

200
This can cool and harden to form igneous rock.
What is magma or lava?
200
Smallest particle size of sediment.
What is clay?
200
Where does the word "metamorphic" come from?
From the Greek language
200

How do metamorphic rocks change into igneous rock?

They melt into magma, then cool.

200
How are minerals identified?
By chemical and physical properties.
300
Examples of intrusive/extrusive rock
Gabbro,granite,diorite/basalt and obsidian
300
The three subcategories of sedimentary rocks.
What is clastic, organic, and chemical?
300
Two things needed to form a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
300
What is needed to make igneous rocks?
Magma
300
What is the worst way to identify a mineral? Why?
Color, because other minerals can have the same color
400
This type of igneous rock forms when lava cools on the Earth's surface.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
400
These are little pieces of rocks, pebbles, mineral grains, and shells that form rocks. Also what sedimentary rocks are made of.
What is sediment?
400
Subcategories of metamorphic rocks.
What is foliated and nonfoliated?
400
What three rocks are made in the rock cycle?
Igneous, Sedimentary,and Metamorphic
400
How are minerals used as resources?
Jewelry, aircraft, cars etc
500
The meaning of igneous.
What is life?
500
Examples of sedimentary rocks.
What is limestone, sandstone?
500
Examples of foliated and nonfoliated.

What is gneiss, phyllite, schist/hornfels,marble, quartzite

500
What is needed to make sediment?
Weathering and Erosion
500
How are minerals formed?

The intense heat and pressure found far beneath the Earth's crust in the mantle, cools to become a mineral.