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A _____ IS A NATURALLY OCCURRING, INORGANIC SOLID THAT HAS A CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND A DEFINITE CHEMICAL COMPOPSITION.
What is MINERAL?
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_____ ROCKS ARE CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THEIR ORIGIN, TEXTURE, AND MINERAL COMPOSITION.
What is IGNEOUS?
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_____ ROCK IS IGNEOUS ROCK FORMED FROM LAVA THAT ERUPTED ONTO EARTH'S SURFACE.
What is EXTRUSIVE?
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_____ IS THE PROCESS BY WHICH SEDIMENT SETTLES OUT OF THE WATER OR WIND CARRYING IT.
What is DEPOSITION?
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HEAT AND PRESSURE DEEP BENEATH EARTH'S SURFACE CAN CHANGE ANY ROCK INTO _____ ROCK.
What is METAMORPHIC?
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_____ MEANS THAT THE MINERAL CANNOT FORM FROM MATERIALS THAT WERE ONCE PART OF A LIVING THING.
What is INORGANIC?
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MOST ROCKS ARE MADE UP OF PARTICLES OF MINERALS OR OTHER ROCKS, WHICH GEOLOGISTS CALL _____.
What are GRAINS?
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IGNEOUS ROCK THAT FORMED WHEN MAGMA HARDENED BENEATH EARTH'S SURFACE IS CALLED _____ ROCK.
What is INTRUSIVE?
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THE PROCESS THAT PRESSES SEDIMENTS TOGETHER IS _____.
What is COMPACTION?
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GEOLOGISTS CLASSIFY METAMORPHIC ROCKS ACCORDING TO THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE _____ THAT MAKE UP THE ROCKS.
What are GRAINS?
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THE PARTICLES OF A MINERAL LINE UP IN A PATTERN THAT REPEATS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THE REPEATING PATTERN FORMS A SOLID CALLED A _____.
What is CRYSTAL?
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TO A GEOLOGIST, A ROCK'S _____ IS THE LOOK AND FEEL OF THE ROCK'S SURFACE.
What is TEXTURE?
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_____ IS SMALL, SOLID PIECES OF MATERIAL THAT COME FROM ROCKS OR LIVING THINGS.
What is SEDIMENT?
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_____ IS THE PROCESS IN WHICH DISSOLVED MINERALS CRYSTALLIZE AND GLUE PARTICLES OF SEDIMENT TOGETHER.
What is CEMENTATION?
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METAMORPHIC ROCKS THAT HAVE THEIR GRAINS ARRANGED IN PARALLEL LAYERS OR BANDS ARE SAID TO BE _____.
What is FOLIATED?
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THE _____ OF A MINERAL IS THE COLOR OF ITS POWDER.
What is STREAK?
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THE _____ _____ IS A SERIES OF PROCESSES ON EARTH'S SURFACE AND IN THE CRUST AND MANTLE THAT SLOWLY CHANGE ROCKS FROM ONE KIND TO ANOTHER.
What is ROCK CYCLE?
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MOST SEDIMENTARY ROCKS ARE FORMED THROUGH A SERIES OF PROCESSES: EROSION, DEPOSITION, _____, AND _____.
What are COMPACTION and CEMENTATION?
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A _____ ROCK IS A SEDIMENTARY ROCK THAT FORMS WHEN ROCK FRAGMENTS ARE SQUEEZED TOGETHER.
What is CLASTIC?
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METAMORPHIC ROCKS THAT HAVE MINERAL GRAINS ARRANGED RANDOMLY ARE _____.
What is NONFOLIATED?
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_____ IS THE TERM USED TO DESCRIBE HOW LIGHT IS REFLECTED FROM A MINERAL'S SURFACE.
What is LUSTER?
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_____ _____ START THE ROCK CYCLE BY HELPING TO FORM MAGMA, THE SOURCE OF IGNEOUS ROCKS.
What are PLATE MOVEMENTS?
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IN _____, RUNNING WATER, WIND, OR ICE BREAK DOWN AND CARRY AWAY FRAGMENTS OF ROCK.
What is EROSION?
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_____ ROCK FORMS WHERE THE REMAINS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS ARE DEPOSITED IN THICK LAYERS.
What is ORGANIC?
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A MINERAL THAT SPLITS EASILY ALONG FLAT SURFACES HAS THE PROPERTY CALLED _____.
What is CLEAVAGE?
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