Vocab
Metamorphic
Igneous
Sedimentary
Misc
100
Minerals that make up most of the Earth's crust are called? (rock forming minerals or origin)
What is rock forming minerals
100
Metamorphic rocks are formed from?
What is heat and pressure
100
Igneous rocks are formed from:
What is cooling of magma or lava
100
What kind of rock forms from erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation?
What is sedimentary
100
The process that changes one rock to another is called the
What is rock cycle
200
The look and feel of a rock's surface is it's (color or texture)?
What is texture
200
Most metamorphic rocks form (deep beneath the surface or on the Earth's surface)?
What is deep beneath the surface
200
What are the two types of Igneous rocks?
What is intrusive and extrusive
200
What are the three types of sedimentary rocks?
What is clastic, organic, chemical
200
The process in which a rock is broken down by wind, ice, or water is called
What is erosion
300
How a rock has formed is its (origin or texture)?
What is origin
300
What are the two types of metamorphic rocks?
What is foliated and nonfoliated
300
What does instrusive mean?
What is they formed when magma hardened beneath the Earth's surface
300
What does clastic mean?
What is made from broken piece of other rocks
300
Name the four steps for a rock to become sedimentary?
What is erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation
400
When sediment is settles out of water or wind carries it, it's called (erosion or deposition)?
What is deposition
400
Nonfoliated means that the grains in the rocks are
What is arranged randomly
400
What does extrusive mean?
What is formed when lava cools on the earth's surface
400
What does organic mean?
What is made up of dead plants or animals, things that were once living
400
Three ways to describe texture are:
What is grain size, grain shape, grain pattern
500
The texture of a metamorphic rock that has grains in layers is called (coarse grained or foliated)?
What is foliated
500
What does foliated mean?
What is when a rock has grains that formed in layers
500
How does silica content affect color?
What is more silica= lighter color, less silica = darker color
500
What does chemical mean?
What is minerals dissolved in solutions crystallize
500
What are the three types of rocks?
What is igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary
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