Formed when preexisting rocks are exposed to increases in temperature and pressure and to hydrothermal solutions.
What are metamorphic rocks?
100
The most common sedimentary rocks.
What are clastic sedimentary rocks?
100
Small pieces of rock that are moved and deposited by water, glaciers, gravity or wind.
What sediments?
100
Sediments deposited by wind or water tend to be ________________.
What is sorted?
200
Rock created by Heat and Pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
200
Two textural groups of metamorpism.
What is foliated and non-foliated?
200
This word comes from a Greek word meaning "broken".
What is clastic?
200
The removal and transport of sediment is called this.
What is erosion?
200
Mos of the Earth's surface is covered by this.
What is sediment?
300
Created from Weathering and Erosion.
What are sediments?
300
Metamorphic rocks composed of mainly minerals that form with blocky shapes.
What are non-foliated rocks?
300
How clastic sedimentary rocks are classified. Be specific.
What is grain size? Coarse, Medium and Fine grained?
300
The physical and chemical processes that transforms sediments into sedimentary rocks.
What is lithification?
300
The process of sediments being laid down on the ground or sinking to the bottom of water.
What is deposition?
400
Rock created from the cooling and crystallization of magma.
What is igneous rock?
400
When molten material comes in contact with solid rock.
What is contact metamorphism?
400
The percentage of open spaces between grains in a rock.
What is porosity?
400
Two forces that bind sediments together during lithification.
What is compaction and cementation?
400
Rocks that have traveled farther will have ___________ features compared to those that have not traveled at all.
What is rounded? DAILY DOUBLE 800 points
500
An internal or external process that can expose rocks to weathering and erosion.
What is uplifting? DAILY DOUBLE 1000 points
500
The three types of metamorphism.
What is regional, contact and hydrothermal metamorphism?
500
These types of sedimentary rocks involve the evaporation and precipitation of minerals. (Name both)
What is Chemical and Biochemical?
500
The primary feature of sedimentary rocks is horizontal laying which is called_________.
What is bedding?
500
Compare and contrast a conglomerate rock and an evaporite rock.
Both are sedimentary rocks. The Conglomerite rock is a clastic sedimentary rock, whereas the evaporite rock is a chemical sedimentary rock formed by evaporation.