Ignorant Igneous
She Sediment what?
MORPH
The Rock Cycle
Geologic Time Scale
Howdy Doody
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
Which period is between 290-360 million years?
What is Carbonifereous?
100
A ____________diagram is a combination of the cross-section and the top view of the topography of the landscape.
what is block diagram?
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
Acid rain is rainwater that is more acidic than normal rainwater. Acid rain can also dissolve the minerals in rocks faster than normal rainwater can. Which statement about acid rain is true?
Acid rain causes more weathering than normal rainwater does.
200
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________
What are sediments?
200
Which period when only bacteria, fungi and algae were found.
What is Cambrian?
200
The different landforms of the Earth are caused by?
What are movements inside the Earth, erosion and volcanoes?
300
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
300
A fine to medium-grained sedimentary rock that are light in colour and contain silicates.
What is sandstone?
300
A large amount of sediment is deposited on a plain in a short amount of geologic time. Which of the following correctly describes a possible result?
What is the crust subsides?
300
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What is weathering and eroding?
300
A large amount of sediment is deposited on a plain in a short amount of geologic time. Which of the following correctly describes a possible result?
The crust subsides due to the motion of the sediment as it is deposited.
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
This type of sedimentary rock forms when dead plants and animal remains accumulate and then cemented together.
What is a sedimentary rock?
400
What effect will the rate at which the magma cools have on the texture of the 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
Which mineral has the greatest density?
What is galena?
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? (a solid to a liquid.)
500
Which part of the rock cycle helps form igneous rock, but not other types of rock?
What is Melting?
500
Which type of rock is forming deep below the surface?
What is foliated metamorphic rock?
600
Conglomerate, sandstone, and siltstone are all examples of sedimentary rocks. What is the process of formation that these rocks have in common?
What is cementation?
600
This describes the sizes, shapes, and positions of the grains that make up the rock.
What is texture?
600
Which term describes the rock that will eventually form from the sediment?
Clastic
600
What are three changes that can cause minerals to form by metamorphism?
What are temperature, pressure, and chemical makeup?
600
What idoes thia represent
What is a mineral?
600
What is happening?
Magma is rising upwards.
700
What change of state takes place when magma turns into igneous rock?
Liquid to a solid.
700
What is needed for a sedimentary rock to become a metamorphic rock?
heat & pressure
700
Defines subsidence.
Earth sinking
700
This is true about acid rain.
Acid rain causes more weathering than normal rainwater does.
700
The rock felt hard, it was yellow, and it appeared to be made of layers. Declan concluded that the rock was sedimentary. Which observation best supports this conclusion?
The rock's layers.
700
three changes that can cause minerals to form by metamorphism?
heat, pressure, and chemical makrup.