What's the Rock?
A dense rock containing distorted fossils
What is metamorphic?
The study of rocks
What is petrology?
The law of science that establishes the permanence of matter in the universe
What is the law of conservation of matter?
Precipitate sediments form when a solution
What is cools or evaporates?
The common rock that could have formed as both chemical and an organic non-clastic sedimentary rock
What is limestone?
A hard rock with large, interlocking mineral crystals
What is igneous?
The pieces and particles of rocks
What are grains?
All intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks begin to form
Halite probably precipitated from very
What is salty seawater?
Color is not a reliable way to
What is classify rocks?
Rock made of fossil shells that are cemented together
What is sedimentary?
Igneous rock with large mineral grains
What is coarse-grained igneous rock?
The three classes of rock
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
Forms from a precipitate of calcium carbonate
What is natural chalk?
Young-earth geologists believe that most sedimentary rocks formed
What is during the flood?
Soft rock with flaky layers
What is metamorphic?
Properties of rock grains that affect a rock's texture
What is grain size, shape, and pattern?
Length and time is not an important agent of
What is metamorphism?
The kind of igneous rock that looks like black, broken glass
What is obsidian?
The bands of colors depend mainly on
What is the direction of pressure?
When heat and pressure change igneous and sedimentary rock
What is metamorphism?
Two properties that help classify metamorphic rock
What is foliated or non-foliated?
The Bible states in regards to the rock cycle
What is, there is not enough time for the rock cycle to take place?
Forms when eroded particles of rock settle out of flowing substance such as water or wind
What are clastic sediments?
Four types of sedimentary rocks
What are conglomerates, sandstones, siltstones, and shale