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The Rock Cycle
rocks
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100
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
100
A fine-grained sedimentary rock formed mostly of mud and silt.
What is mudstone?
100
Describe texture.
The sizes, shapes, and positions of the grains that make up the rock.
100
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become_______
What is sedimentary rocks.
100
Give one example of a mineral and one example of a rock.
Answer may vary
100
How long does it take for Earth to go through one cycle of Procession?
26,000 years
200
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
200
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
200
What process would a Igneous Rock have to go through to become a Metamorphic Rock?
Heat & Pressure
200
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________
What are sediments?
200
What once living things are imbedded in some Sedimentary Rocks?
Sea Shells
200
What causes the upward movement of hot material, and the sinking of cold material.
Convection Currents
300
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
300
What processes break down and move sediment?
Erosion & Deposition
300
What type of Metamorphic Rock shows heavy banding/layers?
Foliated
300
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What is weathering and eroding?
300
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what is backflip
300
Which term should replace the question mark?
deposition
400
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
400
What is the name of the sedimentary rock that has "glued" other smaller rocks together?
Conglomerate
400
What effect will the rate at which the magma cools have on the crystal size of an igneous rock?
The faster the magma cools, the smaller the crystals in the rock will be
400
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks?
Heat and pressure
400
What is the difference between a mineral and a rock?
Rock can be made of noncrystalline material, but minerals are always crystals.
400
The study of rocks, their history, and the processes that form and change them.
What is geology?
500
If the granite is exposed to intense heat and pressure, it can change to gneiss. Which type of change takes place when granite turns into gneiss?
What is metamorphic rock?
500
Conglomerate, sandstone, and siltstone are all examples of sedimentary rocks. What is the process of formation that these rocks have in common?
Cementation
500
Shale, a sedimentary rock, is the parent rock of this metamorphic rock, slate. What is needed for this to happen?
What are heat and pressure?
500
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
500
Which term describes the eroded material that will more than likely be found here?
Sediment
500
The process of settling of broken rock material to form sediment.
What is deposition?