Tiny relatives of jellyfish that live together in vast numbers are called...
What is a coral animal
100
The 3 major groups of sedimentary rocks are...
What are clastic rocks, organic rocks, and chemical rocks.
100
Quartz, feldspar,hornblende, and mica are in one rock called...
What is granite
100
A dark-colored rock that is low in silica.
What is basalt
100
What are the names of granite, sandstone, and shale after they have been heated and pressured and which rock is nonfoliated?
What is gneiss, quartzite, and slate. Quartzite is the rock that is nonfoliated.
200
The mineral of coral reef is calcite, and the rock is limestone. The mineral that coral reef is made out of and what is the rock that it is made out of
What is the mineral of coral reef is calcite, and the rock is limestone.
200
Shale, sandstone conglomerate, and breccia are all what type of rocks?
What is clastic rocks
200
About 20 minerals that make up most of the rocks of earth's crust.
What is rock-forming minerals
200
The definition of extrusive and intrusive rock is...
What is intrusive rock isigneous rock that forms when magma hardened beneath earth's surface and extrusive is igneous rock that forms from lava that erupted onto earth's surface.
200
Metamorphic rocks that have their grains arranged in parallel layers or bands
What is foliated
300
The 2 coasts in United States in which coral reefs are carry.
What is Florida and Hawaii
300
Coal, and limestone areall what type of rocks?
What is organic rocks
300
Geologists call rocks that are made up of particles of minerals or other rocks what?
What are grains
300
The look and feel of the rock's surface.
What is texture
300
heat and pressure deep beneath eath's surface change what type of rock into metamorphic rock?
What is any rock
400
Coral reefs need their to be what to survive?
What is warm and shallow
400
Most sedimentary rocks are formed through a series of processes like...(name all 4)
What are erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation
400
When studying a rock sample, geologists observe the rock's...(name all three)
What are mineral composition, color, and texture
400
Small, solid pieces of material that come from rock, sediment may include shells, bones, leaves, stems, and other remains of living things
What is sediment
400
geologists classify metamorphic rocks according to the arrangement of what that make up the rocks?
What is the grains
500
Limestone from coral reefs takes about how many years to form?
What is more than 400 milion years
500
People have used sedimentary rocks throughout history for many different purposes, including what?
What is building materials and tools
500
Geologists classify rocks into three major groups of what?
What is ingeous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock
500
a series of processes on earths surface and in the crust and mantle that slowly change rocks from one kind to another
What is rock cycle
500
Certain metamorphic rocks are important minerals for...