4.1 Rocks
Form from cooling magma
What are igneous rocks?
Igneous rocks with larger crystals cool how?
What is slowly?
Where you find the oldest layers of rock.
What is underneath or on the bottom?
The two main creative forces making metamorphic rocks are
Heat and Pressure
A smaller object that orbits a larger object in space?
What is a satellite?
The transportation of sediments by water, wind ice, or gravity
What is erosion?
A commonly used intrusive igneous rock
What is Granite or Diorite?
Gravel, sand, silt or clay are types of this
What is sediment?
The two main types of metamorphism
What are Contact and Regional?
The property of how shiny a mineral is is called this?
What is Luster?
The main process of turning rocks into sediment
What is weathering?
Igneous rock formed from cooling lava.
What are extrusive rocks?
The word for making into a rock
What is Lithification?
The flat layers that form when metamorphic rocks are squeezed are called
What is Foliated?
A map showing the topography of the land going deeper below sea level.
What is a Bathymetic map?
The constant changing of rocks from one type to another over time is called this.
What is the Rock Cycle?
The opposite process to Partial Melting
What is Fractional Crystallization?
Rocks formed when living organisms make hard parts like shells, which then become sediment
What are Biochemical or Bioclastic sedimentary rocks
The metamorphic rock that makes up the lead in pencils
What is Graphite?
The edges of contintents as they go underwater to meet the oceanic basins
What are Continental Margins?
Exposed rock formatations attached to the ground where they are found
What is an Outcrop?
The texture when igneous rocks have some large crystals mixed with mostly tiny crystals.
What is Porphyritic?
A clastic sedimentary rock mad from rounded pebbles cemented together.
What is conglomerate?
This is the parent rock of Slate
What is Shale?
The kind of atomic bond where electrons are shared between atoms.
What is a Covalent bond?