Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
The Rock Cycle
Potpourri
100
Molten rock under the crust.
What is magma?
100
Greek for "broken".
What is clastic?
100
Greek for "morph".
What is "to change" or "change"?
100
The type of rocks that can become metamorphic.
What are igneous and sedimentary? (or metamorphic)
100
The planet closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
200
The most common felsic rock.
What is granite?
200
Rock formation.
What is lithification?
200
The two other types of rocks, besides metamorphic rocks, that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are igneous and sedimentary?
200
How sediments form.
What is by weathering and erosion?
200
Where earthquakes occur in tectonic plates.
What is at transform (strike-slip) boundaries?
300
The key element that determines the melting point of minerals.
What is silica?
300
Two main types of sedimentary rocks. One with rounded sediments and the other with sharp, angular sediments.
What are conglomerates and breccias?
300
Two groups of metamorphic rock.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
300
How magma forms from rocks.
What is melting?
300
He developed the idea of crop rotation to avoid depleting soil of nitrogen.
Who is George Washington Carver?
400
Kimberlites.
What is where diamonds are found/formed?
400
Three examples of sedimentary rock.
What are sandstone, siltstone, shale, halite, limestone, coal...?
400
Three examples of metamorphic rock.
What are schist, gneiss, marble, slate, quartzite, hornfels....?
400
How sediments are carried.
What is by wind, water, or earthquakes?
400
The gas emitted by automobiles that stops the blood's hemoglobin from working properly.
What is carbon monoxide (CO)?
500
Three examples of igneous rocks.
What are diorite, rhyolite, obsidian, pumice, basalt, granite...?
500
Two ways that sedimentary rock form.
What are clastics (cementation), evaporites (evaporation), organic (plants pressed into coal)?
500
The two main factors that create metamorphic rock.
What are heat and pressure?
500
Formed by cooling of magma.
What are igneous rocks?
500
Three of the top ten most deadliest animals in the world.
What are humans, box jellyfish, black mamba, cone snail, cape buffalo, siafu ants, deathstalker scorpion, stonefish, hyena, or pufferfish?
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