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Key Terms
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary
Rocks
Metamorphic
Rocks
Rock Cycle
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from Key Terms
The texture of a metamorphic rock
that has grains arranged in parallel
layers.
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What is foliated?
$200 Question from Key Terms
Grains in a rock that are large and
easy to see.
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What is course grained?
$300 Question from Key Terms
An igneous rock that is formed
from lava.
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What is extrusive?
$400 Question from Key Terms
Small, solid pieces of material
that comes from rocks or living
things.
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What is sediment?
$500 Question from Key Terms
The three terms geologist use to describe
a rock’s texture.
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What is size, shape, and pattern?
$100 Question from Igneous
Rocks
Rock that forms from the cooling of magma
below the surface or lava at the surface.
$100 Answer from Igneous
Rocks
What is igneous rock?
$200 Question from Igneous
Rocks
Igneous rock that formed from lava that
erupted onto Earth’s surface.
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Rocks
What is extrusive rock?
$300 Question from Igneous
Rocks
Igneous rock that cools very quickly
when it forms may have this texture.
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Rocks
What is smooth and shiny with no
visible grains?
$400 Question from Igneous
Rocks
The most abundant intrusive rock in the
continental crust.
$400 Answer from Igneous
Rocks
What is granite?
$500 Question from Igneous
Rocks
During the 1800’s, this igneous rock
was widely used in the United States
to build bridges and public buildings.
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Rocks
What is granite?
$100 Question from Sedimentary
Rocks
The process by which sediment settles
out of the water or wind carrying it.
$100 Answer from Sedimentary
Rocks
What is deposition?
$200 Question from Sedimentary
Rocks
As layer upon layer of sediments are
deposited, this process presses them
together.
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Rocks
What is compaction?
$300 Question from Sedimentary
Rocks
The process in which dissolved minerals
crystallize and glue particles of sediment
together.
$300 Answer from Sedimentary
Rocks
What is cementation?
$400 Question from Sedimentary
Rocks
Coal is an example of this type of
sedimentary rock forms where thick
layers of plant and animal remains
are deposited.
$400 Answer from Sedimentary
Rocks
What is organic?
$500 Question from Sedimentary
Rocks
When seas or lakes evaporate, this
Type of sedimentary rock can form.
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Rocks
What is chemical?
$100 Question from
Metamorphic Rocks
Most metamorphic rock form here.
$100 Answer from Metamorphic
Rocks
What is deep underground?
$200 Question from
Metamorphic Rocks
These factors deep beneath Earth’s
surface can change any rock into a
metamorphic rock.
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Rocks
What is heat and pressure?
$300 Question from
Metamorphic Rocks
The heat that changes a rock into a
metamorphic rock comes from here.
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Rocks
What is the heat of the mantle?
$400 Question from
Metamorphic Rocks
The two most useful metamorphic rocks.
$400 Answer from Metamorphic
Rocks
What are marble and slate?
$500 Question from
Metamorphic Rocks
Metamorphic rocks that do not
split into layers.
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Rocks
What is nonfoliated?
$100 Question from Rock Cycle
A series of processes on Earth’s surface and
in the crust and mantle that slowly changes
rocks from one kind to another.
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What is the rock cycle?
$200 Question from Rock Cycle
Magma and lava form this type of rock
once it cools in the rock cycle.
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What is igneous?
$300 Question from Rock Cycle
This step in the rock cycle creates
the sediment from which sedimentary
rock is formed.
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What is erosion?
$400 Question from Rock Cycle
The three types of rock in the rock
cycle.
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What are igneous, sedimentary
and metamorphic.
$500 Question from Rock Cycle
During the rock cycle, a collision between
two continental plates could force one
plate down toward the heat of the mantle,
producing this type of rock.
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What is metamorphic rock?
Final Jeopardy
Rocks and minerals are classified this way.
Final Jeopardy Answer
What is rocks are classified according
to the way they form, but minerals
are classified according to their
physical properties?