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Igneous
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Too Much Pressure
Recycling Rocks
100
A geologist uses this to determine a rock's mineral composition.
What is a microscope?
100
Which of these is an intrusive rock? a. pumice b. granite c. basalt
What is granite?
100
The process that presses sediments together.
What is cementation?
100
Where most metamorphic rocks are found.
What is deep underground?
100
Erosion and deposition is used in the formation of this rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
The name of the three major groups of rocks refers to this.
What is how the rocks formed?
200
This rock has large crystals on a background of smaller crystals.
What is a porphyritic rock?
200
This rock begins as coral.
What is limestone?
200
Metamorphic rocks that have their grains arranged in parallel bands.
What is foliated rocks?
200
Slate is a denser, more compact version of this rock.
What is shale?
300
Larger crystals are formed from this kind of igneous rock.
What is instrusive?
300
The Egyptians used this igneous rock for making their statues.
What is granite?
300
Name two types of organic rocks.
What is limestone and coal?
300
The Grand Canyon is made up of this type of rock.
What is sandstone?
300
This drives the rock cycle.
What is plate movement?
400
These are three characteristics that geologists identify a rock.
What is its color, texture, and its mineral composition.
400
This allows the crystals of igneous rocks to be small or large.
What is the rate of cooling?
400
Coral depends on this to live, which is the reason why they cannot live below this many kilometers. Two answers - DAILY DOUBLE
What is algae and 40 kilometers?
400
The Taj Mahal is made out of this metamorphic rock.
What is marble?
400
The collision of these two plates can create igneous rock. Also, name the process.
What is a continental and oceanic or oceanic and oceanic in the process of subduction?
500
Granite is naturally light-colored because it contains this element.
What is silica?
500
Granite that is speckled pink is rich in this.
What is feldspar?
500
Name the three types of coral reefs starting from the closest to the shore to the farthest out.
What are fringing reef, barrier reef, and atoll?
500
This is how a metamorphic rock can change into a sedimentary rock.
What is a metamorphic rock can be exposed at the surface, erode and carried to another place, compacted and cemented into a sedimentary rock.
500
Name a pathway that igneous rock can come from sedimentary rock.
What is subduction at convergent boundaries, sedimentary rock melts to become a part of the mantle, magma rises and can harden to an igneous rock?
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