Plate Tectonics
Sedimentary Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Minerals
100
Two plates move apart and magma fills the space between.
What is a divergent boundary?
100
Clasts in order of size.
What is boulder, cobbles, pebbles, sand, clay & silt?
100
The crystal size when magma cools slowly.
What is coarse-grained?
100
Two main things involved in metamorphism.
What is pressure and temperature?
100
The five characteristics of all minerals.
What are natural, inorganic, solid, ordered internal structure, and specific chemical composition?
200
Two plates move towards each other, and one plate usually slides underneath the other.
What is a convergent boundary?
200
When clasts are all the same size in a rock it is______.
What is well-sorted?
200
The crystal size when magma cools quickly.
What is fine-grained?
200
Forms because of different types of stress on the rock (becomes sheet like in pattern).
What is foliation?
200
A native element.
What is a mineral consisting of only one chemical element?
300
Two plates move horizontally past one another.
What is a transform boundary?
300
Most rock beds orientation.
What is parallel beds?
300
The two main components of felsic rocks.
What is quartz and feldspar?
300
Forms of shale in order of increasing metamorphic grade.
What is slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss?
300
Name the 5 tests we do on minerals.
What is hardness, streak, effervescence, magnetism, and density?
400
The strongest force in plate movement.
What is slab-pull?
400
The environment where breccia rocks form.
What is rock slides and debriflows?
400
The two main components of mafic rocks.
What is magnesium and iron?
400
Caused by the local heating of magma.
What is contact metamorphism?
400
Crystalline minerals.
What is a rock composed of interlocking minerals that grew together?
500
This collision produces huge mountain ranges.
What is a continent-continent convergent boundary (or "continental collision")?
500
Environment where conglomerate rocks form.
What is rivers and streams?
500
The way that igneous rocks are classified.
What is composition and size of crystals?
500
Deformation and heating over a broader area.
What is regional metamorphism?
500
Covalent Bonds
What is the strongest bond between atoms?
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