Rock Cycle
Metamorphic Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Rocks/Minerals
100
The process that creates sediments
What is weathering and erosion?
100
These metamorphic rocks have visible layers or bands in them
What are foliated metamorphic rocks?
100
The type of igneous rock that forms when magma cools slowly
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
100
The type of sedimentary rock that forms from compacted sediments
What are clastic sedimentary rocks?
100
The three types of rocks
What are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks?
200
The processes that create metamorphic rocks
What are heat and pressure?
200
These metamorphic rocks don't have visible layers or bands in them
What are nonfoliated metamorphic rocks?
200
The type of igneous rock that forms when magma cools quickly
What are extrusive igneous rocks?
200
The type of organic sediments found in this sedimentary rock
What are fossils?
200
The way rocks are classified
What is based on how they form?
300
The process that create igneous rocks
What is magma or lava cooling and solidifying?
300
The type of metamorphism in which existing rocks are exposed to heat causing them to change
What is contact metamorphism?
300
The term that describes igneous rocks that contain air bubbles
What is vesicular?
300
The type of sedimentary rock that forms from water evaporating and leaving behind minerals
What are crystalline sedimentary rocks? (evaporates/precipitates)
300
The 4 characteristics of a mineral
What is 1.Inorganic, 2. solid, 3. crystalline form, and 4. definite chemical make-up?
400
The process that creates sedimentary rocks
What are compaction and cementation?
400
The type of metamorphism in which existing rocks are exposed to pressure causing them to change
What is regional metamorphism?
400
The type of igneous rocks that have large crystals
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
400
This type of sedimentary rock forms from biological matter being compacted into a rock
What is an organic sedimentary rock?
400
The difference between lava and magma
What is lava is molten rock above ground and magma is molten rock below ground?
500
The process that creates magma
What is melting?
500
The type of metamorphic rock shown in this picture..jpg)
What is a foliated metamorphic rock?
500
The type of igneous rock that have small or no crystals
What are extrusive igneous rocks?
500
An example of a sedimentary rock that forms from sediments of sand being compacted together
What is sandstone?
500
The difference between weathering and erosion.
What is weathering = breaking down of rocks into sediments and erosion = movement of those sediments?