Sedimenmtary
Igneous
Metamorphic
Vocabulary
Rock Types
100

You must have this to have a sedicmentary rock

What is sediment

100

What does Igneous mean?

What is fire or of fire?

100

What do the words meta and morph mean?

What is change of form

100

This is how rock sediment moves from undear the earth.

What is the rock cycle?

100

Clastic is  a rock form that is made up of limestone and another rock.  

What is Sedimentary

200

This process takes elements of weather and uses them to transport sediment into layers

What is weathering

200

Magma lives inside the earth's mantle.  Rocks formed here are called what?

What is Intrusive Rock?
200

How are Metamorphic rocks formed?

What is when sediment or materials go under high pressure and heat

200

How are rocks classified?

What is by where they are formed.

200

Limestone is an example of this type of rock

What is sedimentary

300

This is the process where wind, rain and water dump sediment to form layers

What is Deposition
300

Lava that flows outside of the earth's surface creates this.

What is Extrusive rock

300

There are two different types of metamorphic rock.  This type comes in contact with magma to form.  

What is contact?

300

The beach is an example of what?

What is sediment?

300

What is the process called that creates metamorphic rock?

What is metamorphisis

400

When fossils of a land animal and marine animal are found in the same sedimentary rock what can you infer about what layers they were found in?

What is the land animal fossil was probably in a different layer than the marine animal fossil( the land animal probably being in the continental crust and the other in the oceanic crust)

400

What is the difference between magma and lava?

What is magma and lave are two different states of matter

400

This second type of metamorphic rock forms large rocks in mountainous regions.

What is regional

400

What is the Geosphere?

What is the make up of the earths layers

400

Minerals can become rocks.  But rocks are not minerals.  Rocks contain this but minerals dont.

What are organisms or organic

500

The part of the process where ground water flows through the layers creating what?

What is cementation
500

What two things do Igneous rocks need to form?

What is magma/heat and cooling

500

Metamorphic rock becomes sediment under what conditions?

What is weathering, and erosion

500

Name the four or more parts of the earth

What are the crust, oceanic crust, continental crust, outer mantle, mantle, inner mantle, outer core, and inner core

500

This type of rock is sedimentary.  It forms when plant and animal remains pile up on each other

Biologic