The Rock Cycle | Igneous Rock | Metamorphic Rock | Sedimentary Rock |
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What is rock?
Mixture of minerals, organic matter, or other material.
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What is lava?
Magma that reaches the surface from a volcano.
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What is heat and pressure?
_______________ result in metamorphic rock.
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What is the exposed surface of the earth?
Where sedimentary rock is often found.
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What is the rock cycle?
The proccesses that create and change rock.
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What is intrusive igneous rock?
A rock that is formed when magma cools under the surface.
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What is magma?
High temperature can form _________.
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What are layers?
Sedimentary rocks form in __________.
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What is sedimentary rock?
Rock created from sediments.
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What is extrusive igneous rock?
A rock that is formed when lava flows out from a volcano, then cools and hardens.
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What are bands/layers?
An identifying characteristic of metamorphic rock.
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What are sediments?
Rock and mineral grains and bits of plants and animal remains moved by wind, water, and gravity are called _________________.
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What is igneous rock?
Rock created from the cooling of magma/lava.
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What is intrusive and extrusive?
The two ways igneous rocks are classified.
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What is pressure?
Sometimes ____________ flattens mineral grains in rocks without melting them.
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What is compaction/cementation?
When water and other minerals move through open spaced between larger sediments, gluing them together, ____________ occurs.
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What is metamorphic rock?
Rock created from heat and pressure.
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What is cools?
Extrusive igneous rock ____ so quickly that few crystals form.
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What is small?
If there are crystals in metamorphic rock they are very ________.
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What is organic sedimentary?
_____________ rocks are made from the remains of once – living plants or animals.
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