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100

What type of rock forms when smaller rocks are pressed together under pressure over time?

Sedimentary

100

Which type of rock is loosely held together?

Sedimentary

200

What type of rock forms when rocks melt, cool, and then harden?

Igneous

200

Which type of rock can be formed during a volcanic eruption?

Igneous

300

What type of rock forms when heat or pressure change an existing rock?

Metamorphic

300

What do we call the melted rock that makes an igneous rock?

Magma

400

Which of the following is a step in the formation of sedimentary rocks?

Erosion

400

What do the layers in this sedimentary rock reveal?

How the landscape changed over time

500

What conditions are required to create metamorphic rock?

A large amount of heat and pressure

500

What type of evidence most likely can be found in layers of sedimentary rock that will explain the history of the life in the region?

Animal fossils