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Sedimentary Rock
Igneous Rock
The Rock Cycle
Metamorphic Rock
Rockin' Vocab.
100
A type of sedimentary rock.
What is sandstone, shale, conglomerate, limestone, coal or gypsum?
100
Type of igneous rock.
What is granite, obsidian, basalt, or pumice?
100
These 3 types of rocks are constantly changing and moving through the rock cycle.
What are metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous?
100
Metamorphic means
What is to change form?
100
The natural process of laying down a deposit of something.
What is deposition?
200
These are cemented and compacted to make sedimentary rock.
What are sediments?
200
These hot flowing materials cool and harden to create igneous rocks.
What magma or lava?
200
These are made up of fossils, sand, gravel, clay, silt, etc.
What are sediments?
200
Metamorphic rocks are created when igneous or sedimentary rocks are transformed by this process.
What is heat and pressure?
200
The quality of a rock that is based on the sizes, shapes, and positions of rock's grains.
What is texture?
300
Sedimentary rocks can be made up of these remains of dead plants and animals.
What are fossils?
300
Weathering and erosion of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock make this.
What is sediment?
300
Action that breaks up rocks by chemically attacking them. Limestone being broken down by acid rain.
What is chemical weathering?
300
Types of metamorphic rock.
What are marble, slate, quartzite, schist or gneiss?
300
A process on the surface and inside the Earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.
What is the rock cycle?
400
Process in which sedimentary rocks are arranged in layers.
What is stratification?
400
Type of igneous rock formed as lava cools on the surface of the earth.
What is extrusive?
400
Physical action that breaks up rocks like a road with cracks in it.
What is physical weathering?
400
Metamorphic rocks that don't have lines of minerals in them.
What is unfoliated?
400
A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals or organic matter.
What is a rock?
500
Layers of Sedimentary Rock
What is strata?
500
Type of igneous rock that forms when magma cools and solidifies beneath the earth's surface.
What is intrusive?
500
Process by which rocks are worn away over time. Two word phrase.
What is weathering and erosion?
500
Metamorphic rocks that are layered.
What is foliated?
500
The chemical makeup of a rock..the minerals or other materials in the rock.
What is composition?