Small, solid pieces of material that comes from rocks or organisms.
What is sediment?
100
Sedimentary rock that forms where remains of organisms are deposited in thick layers.
What is organic rock?
100
Term used to describe metamorphic rocks whose grains are arranged randomly.
What is nonfoliated?
100
A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface.
What is igneous rock?
100
Igneous rock that forms when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface.
What is intrusive rock?
200
The destructive process in which water or wind loosen and carry away fragments of rock.
What is erosion?
200
Sedimentary rock that forms when rock fragments are squeezed together under high pressure.
What is clastic rock?
200
A series of processes on the surface and inside Earth that slowly change rocks from one kind to another.
What is rock cycle?
200
A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
Product of Carbon dioxide added to Limewater.
What is Limestone?
300
The process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind that is carrying it.
What is deposition?
300
Sedimentary rock that forms when minerals crystallize from a solution.
What is chemical rock?
300
Trigonal, Hardness: 3, nonmetallic (glassy-resinous), white streak, carbonate, transparent-translucent.
What is Calcite?
300
Slate, schist, and gnesis may sspilt aprat along these bands.
How does a foliated metamorphic rock form?
300
Coral animals are tiny relatives of jellyfish that live together in vast numbers. They produce skeletons that grow together to form a structure called a coral reef.
What is a coral animal?
400
The process by which sediments are pressed together under their own weight.