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Rock Recycle
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Hodge Podge
100
I'm known as the continual process by which a new rock forms from old rock material.
What is the rock cycle?
100
I begin as Magma.
What is an Igneous rock?
100
Layers of rock
What is strata?
100
This word means "Changes Shape"
What is Metamorphism(ic)?
100
The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another.
What is Erosion?
200
A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals and organic matter.
What is a rock?
200
The name given to light-colored Igneous rocks.
What is Felsic?
200
Sedimentary rock that forms when rock or mineral fragments, called clasts, are cemented together.
What is Clastic(Sedimentary Rock)?
200
The TWO factors that can lead to the formation of a Metamorphic rock.
What are Heat(Temperature) and Pressure?
200
The chemical makeup of a rock.
What is Composition?
300
The process in which water, wind, ice and heat break down rock.
What is weathering?
300
Name given to dark-colored Igneous rocks.
What is Mafic?
300
Sedimentary rock that forms when minerals crystallize out of a solution, such as sea water, to form rock.
What is Chemical(Sedimentary Rock)?
300
Name the TWO types of Rock Metamorphisms.
What are Contact and Regional?
300
The quality of a rock that is based on the sizes, shapes and positions of the rock's grains.
What is texture?
400
The process in which sediment moved by erosion is dropped and comes to rest.
What is Deposition?
400
Igneous rock formed from the cooling and solidification of magma beneath the Earth's surface.
What is Intrusive?
400
Sedimentary rock that forms from the remains of once-living plants and animals.
What is Organic(Sedimentary Rock)?
400
The texture of metamorphic rock in which the mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands.
What is foliated?
400
The hot liquid that forms when rock partially or completely melts.
What is Magma?
500
This movement within the Earth causes rocks inside the Earth to be moved to the Earth's surface.
What is Uplift?
500
Igneous rock that forms as a result of volcanic activity at or near the Earth's surface?
What is Extrusive?
500
This specific sedimentary rock metamorphoses into Marble.
What is Limestone?
500
Name given to the "friendliest" Metamorphic Rock.
What is Gneiss(Nice)?
500
The largest of all Igneous rock intrusions.
What is a Batholith?