Types of Rocks
The Rock Cycle
Specific Rocks
Rocks of Ages
100
The three types of rocks
What are: 1. igneous rocks; 2. sedimentary rocks; 3. metamorphic rocks?
100

These are small pieces of broken down rock

What are sediments?

100

What rocks are made of

What are minerals?

100

Sedimentary rocks are known for having these

What are layers?

200
Limestone (a rock made from heat and pressure but not from melting)
What is: (an example of) a sedimentary rock?
200

The breaking down of minerals and rocks into small pieces

What is weathering?

200

An igneous rock that is often used to make kitchen counters

What is granite?

200
Scientists use these to provide information about life and conditions of the past.
What are: fossils?
300
A rock that has changed from one type of rock to another by heat or pressure; may also have a swirled look
What is a metamorphic rock?
300

The moving of sediment and soil by gravity, wind, and running water

What is erosion?

300

An igneous rock that is made when lava cools quickly in water

What is a obsidian?

300
Fossils are usually found in this type of rock.
What is: sedimentary rock?
400
Rocks that are usually found near volcanoes and are formed from the cooling and hardening of hot magma or lava
What are igneous rocks?
400

Finish this statement:  One type of rock can become any other ________  ____ _________, depending on the conditions it undergoes.

What is: type of rock

400

A metamorphic rock formed from limestone. It is often used in making floors, columns, and statutes.

What is marble?

400

The parts of animals and plants that make fossils

What are shells, bones, teeth, stems - hard parts?

500
The addition of these is needed over time for a sedimentary rock to be changed into a metamorphic rock.
What are: heat and pressure?
500
When rocks change from one form to another and back again over many years
What is the rock cycle?
500

A light-colored, lightweight igneous rock with many air holes

What is pumice?

500

Aquatic-type fossils found in an area indicate this

What is: water once covered the area?