Igneous, Sedimentary or Metamorphic?

Worksheet by Stacey Binder
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Biology
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10
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ENG
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Sort the words into the correct category based on whether they are describing igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic rocks. Igneous formed by the cooling and solidification of magma or lava intrusive extrusive mafic felsic glassy texture vesicular (gas pockets) texture melted rock Sedimentary clastic (pieces of other rocks) fossils formed from weathering and erosion, deposition and burial fragments of rocks bioclastic organic land-derived Metamorphic formed by heat and pressure banding foliation recrystallization mineral alignment contact metamorphism regional metamorphism unmelted

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