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Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rock
Rock Cycle
Old Words
100
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is volcano?
100
This is what sedimentary rock starts off as.
What is sediment?
100
These are rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What is sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
100
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100
Igneous rocks get their name from ignus, a roman word meaning this.
What is fire?
200
Name for liquid rock.
What is molten rock?
200
The movement of sediment.
What is erosion?
200
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
200
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystallized inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is igneous rock?
200
Metamorphic rocks get their name from two latin words, meta meaning.
What is change?
300
Rock that is found inside volcano is most likely made from this type of molten rock.
What is magma?
300
The process of compaction and cementation is also known as this.
What is lithification?
300
Sandstone must go through this to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
300
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
300
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morphic, meaning this.
What is form?
400
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are extrusive and intrusive rocks?
400
A sedimentary rock that is made from once living things.
What is organic rock?
400
This is why a metamorphic rock is great for building.
What are durable and strong?
400
This is how mountains from and various rocks get back to the surface.
What is tectonic plate collision?
400
Foliated metamorphic rocks get their name from the latin word folia meaning.
What is leaf?
500
It is the most common extrusive rock and it makes up most of the ocean's floor.
What is basalt?
500
A sedimentary rock made from evaporated sediment that once was dissolved in water.
What is chemical rock?
500
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated
500
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure?
500
Sedimentary rocks get their name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?