An igneous rock that cools quickly has this texture.
What is nonfoliated?
100
This started as limestone before undergoing metamorphism.
What is marble?
100
Minerals used in jewelry are classified as these.
What are gemstones?
200
A sedimentary rock with coarse-grained sediments.
What is conglomerate?
200
The name of the process that exposes buried rocks at the Earth's surface.
What is uplift?
200
What igneous rocks start out as.
What is magma?
200
The two processes that cause metamorphism.
What are heat and pressure?
200
What rocks are made of.
What are minerals?
300
The three classifications of sedimentary rocks.
What are clastic, chemical, and organic?
300
Process by which sediment is removed from its source, such as rocks being carried down stream by water.
What is Erosion?
300
Lava flows from these on the ocean floor.
What are fissures?
300
Type of metamorphism that occurs near igneous intrusions or magma bodies.
What is contact metamorphism?
300
Two things scientists classify rocks by.
What are composition and texture?
400
Quartzite, a metamorphic rock, was once this type of sedimentary rock.
What is sandstone?
400
Describe two ways humans have used rocks or minerals in the past.
What is ...
400
Double Jeopardy:
Light-colored felsic rocks are rich in these four elements.
What are aluminum, potassium, silicon, sodium?
400
Name two of the four types of rocks that result from sedimentary shale undergoing metamorphism.
What are slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss?
400
Plant or animal remains that can help tell the age of a rock.
What are fossils?
500
Coquina (which means edible clams) is a sedimentary rock made up of shell fragments and sand. Coquina rocks are deposited in this type of environment.
What is beach or shallow ocean?
500
Name the missing steps in the rock cycle:
Weathering, _______, _______, Compaction/Cementation, Metamorphism, _______, Cooling, and _______.
What are (in order) Erosion, Deposition, Melting, and Solidification?
500
The definition of these two types of igneous intrusive bodies relates to their orientation to the rocks they are intruding.
What are sill (parallel to intruded rocks) and dike (cut across intruded rocks)?
500
Scientists can understand the history of a metamorphic rock by observing the minerals within the rock. Which of the following indicates formation at a greater depth and under greater heat and pressure: chlorite or garnet.
What is garnet?
500
Double Jeopardy:
Three types of earth forces (shown in today's presentation).
What are earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches, floods, landslides, volcanic eruption?