Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
The Rock Cycle
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
100

This is the name of molten rock found below Earth's surface.

What is magma?

100

Sedimentary rocks form when this material is compacted and cemented.

What are sediments?

100

Metamorphic rocks form when exposed to intense ___________ and ____________.

What is heat and pressure?

100

The Rock Cycle shows how one type of rock can do this over time.

What is change into another type of rock.

100

The process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces by wind, water, ice, or gravity.

What is weathering?

200

Rocks that form from lava cooling on Earth's surface are called...

What is extrusive igneous rock?

200

The process that presses sediments together under their own weight and squeezes out extra water and air.

What is compaction?

200

Metamorphic rocks that show visible bands to stripes are described as this.

What is foliated?

200

What type of change forms sedimentary rocks - physical or chemical?

What is a physical change?

200

The Grand Canyon formed mostly because of this process moving sediments over millions of years. 

What is erosion?

300

If an Igneous Rock cools very quickly, it will have this texture because crystals didn't have time to form.

What is glassy?

300

The process that glues sediments together with minerals.

What is cementation?

300

What do scientists call the original rock that changes into a metamorphic rock?

What is a parent rock?

300

The main energy source that drives the formation of sedimentary rocks comes from this.

What is the Sun?

300

Breaking rocks into smaller pieces by freezing and thawing water is this type of weathering.

What is frost wedging?

400

The slower magma cools, the crystals that form are this size. What type of texture?

What is large/coarse-grained?

400

Sedimentary rocks often contain these, which give clues about past life.

What are fossils?

400

Marble forms from this type of parent rock.

What is limestone?

400

The main energy source that drives the formation of metamorphic and igneous rocks comes from this.

What is Earth's interior?

400

Sediments deposited at the mouth of a river, forming new land, is an example of this process.

What is deposition?

500

Explain why igneous rocks are sometimes called the "starting point" of the rock cycle.

What is because they form directly from cooled magma or lava?

500

Explain the order of the process that sedimentary rocks go through to form.

What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation?

500

During metamorphism, rocks are exposed to extreme heat and pressure, but they do not reach temperatures high enough to do this:

What is melt?

500

How does an Igneous Rock become a Sedimentary Rock? How does a Sedimentary Rock then become a Metamorphic Rock? How does a Metamorphic Rock then become an Igneous Rock again? Explain the whole process.

What is: Igneous rock undergoes weathering and erosion to break into sediments, which are compacted and cemented to form sedimentary rock; then heat and pressure transform the sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock; then the metamorphic rock melts into magma and then cools, it forms igneous rock again?

500

What is the sequence of processes that turns a rock into sand at a beach?

What is rocks are broken down by weathering, moved by erosion, and then dropped as sediments on a beach by deposition?