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Makes 95% of the earth's crust.
What is Silica
Original rock form of a metamorphic rock
What is a parent rock
Small holes in igneous rocks
What are vesicles
Compacted and cemented to make sedimentary rocks
What are Sediments
How would a sedimentary rock form from an igneous rock
What is going to the surface going to get eroded and then being compacted and cemented
What Mafic Means
Ma- Magnesium, Fic-ferrum, iron in Latin
Where is heat and pressure applied to Metamorphic rocks
Where is underground
Is granite intrusive or extrusive?
What is Intrusive
Plants turned into a rock
What is coal
After a rock is melted, what does it become
Magma
The more Silica makes it lighter or darker
Lighter
Grandparent rocks
Ash and Pumice are included.
What is Pyroclastic
How is a Fragmental rock different from a resinous rock
What is organic
The weathering of rocks by plants
What is biological weathering
Large amounts of heavy metal in rock is called
ultramafic
Bands in a metamorphic rock
What is foliation
What the fel, in Felsic means
What is Potassium feldspar
`What are all sizes of sedimentary rocks
What is Boulder, cobble, Sand, Silt sizes
The type of weathering involving ice
What is Physical Weathering
What is the SP of Mafic rocks
at least 3
The parent rock of Anthracite?
What is coal.
The other name of the texture of coarse-grained igneous rock
What is Phaneritic
What type of rock is rock salt
What is Chemical type
The difference between weathering and erosion
Weathering breaks it down, erosion moves it.