mineral alignment a layered or banded appearance caused by compressional force
What is foliation
100
a rock that contains crystals that are large enough to see
What is phaneritic
100
What is a high-energy environment and a low-energy environment
stream and swamp
100
a passive volcano that makes up the Hawaiian Islands
What is shield volcano
200
the most abundant element in the earth's crust
What is oxygen
200
Changes to rock texture and mineral content caused by heat and/or pressure.
What is metamorphism
200
crystals that are too small to see
What is aphanitic
200
Term describing a rock that is made of solid particles of other rocks
What is detrital?
200
the reason some volcanoes have violent eruptions
what is high viscosity
300
Components that make up a mineral
What is naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solid, and set chemical composition that varies only with certain well-defined limits.
300
Large volume of rock subjected to heat and pressure.
What is regional metamorphism
300
a compositional term that describes a rock containing quartz and feldspar (light colored rocks).
What is felsic
300
the mineral that limestone is made of
What is calcite
300
Steep sided, tall, cone shaped.
Example: Mt. St. Helen
what is a composite cone
400
Dark colored, contains Fe and Mg, dense
What are ferromagnesian minerals
400
heat, pressure, water
What are metamorphic agents
400
the extrusive rock that makes up the ocean floor and the intrusive rock that makes up the continental crust.
What is basalt and granite
400
a detrital sedimentary rock made of sand and pebbles
What is conglomerate
400
the three types of plate boundaries
what is divergent, convergent, transform
500
Important mineral groups
What are silicates, carbonates, sulfides, oxides, and evaporites?
500
Metamorphic rocks to know
what is slate, schist, gneiss, and marble?
500
The igneous rock category that is formed when lava is released from volcanoes and cools at the earth's surface (rapid cooling). The igneous rock category that is formed when magma cools deep underground (slow cooling).
What is extrusive and intrusive
500
the making of sedimentary rocks
What is source material, weathering, erosion and transport, deposition, lithification