Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Weathering and Erosion
Rock Cycle
100
The process where some minerals melt at low temperatures while other minerals remain solid
What is partial melting?
100
This is a type of metamorphisism where high temperatures and high pressures affect large areas of Earths crust
What is regional metamorphisism?
100
These are pieces of solid material that have been deposited on Earths surface by wind, water, ice, gravity, or chemical precipitation
What is sediments?
100
This is the most impactful weathering agent
What is water?
100
This is where the rock cycle begins and ends
What is melting metamorphic rock and cooling and crystallization of magma to form igneous rock?
200
Light-Colored rocks such as granite that have high silica contents and contain quartz and the feldspars orthoclase and plagioclase
What is felsic igneous rock?
200
This is where extremely hot water reacts with a rock and alters the rocks' chemistry and mineralogy
What is hydrothermal metamorphisism?
200
This process beigins with compaction and is where physical and chemical processes turn sediments into solid sedimentary rocks
What is lithification?
200
This is where sediments move
What is erosion?
200
This is what causes sedimentary rocks to become metamorphic rock
What is heat and pressure?
300
Unusual igneous rocks, peridotite and dunite, that have low silica contents and very high levels of iron and magnesium
What is ultramafic igneous rock?
300
This is a type of metamorphic texture where mineral grains are all going in the same direction
What is foliated metamorphic rock?
300
This is bedding in which the particle sizes become progressively heavier and coarser towards the bottom layers
What is graded bedding?
300
This a weathering type that occurs when the minerals in a rock are dissolved
What is chemical weathering?
300
This is what happens to igneous rocks before they can be weathered and eroded
What is uplift?
400
This is how igneous rocks are formed
What is cooling and crystallization from magma?
400
This is where molten rocks, such as those in an igneous intrusion, come in contact with solid rock
What is contact metamorphisism?
400
This is a sedimentary rock type in which the grains are classified by coarse-grained, medium-grained, and fine-grained sediments
What is clastic sedimentary rock?
400
This is the direction in which eroded materials are always moved
What is downhill?
400
These are the two things that can occur to a sedimentary rock
What is uplift and heat and pressure to become a metamorphic rock?
500
This illustrates that as magma cools, minerals form in predictable patterns. Adopted from Candian Geologist in the early 1900's
What is Bowens Reaction Series?
500
This is the greek meaning for the word "meta" and the greek meaning for the word "morphe"
What is change and form?
500
Type of bedding formed as inclined layers of sediment move forward across a horizontal surface
What is cross-bedding?
500
This is the beggining process of the formation of sedimentary rocks
What is weathering and erosion?
500
These are the processes that occur under the Earths surface
What is Internal Processes?
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