Types of
Characteristics
Processes
Rock Cycle
Miscellaneous
100
An igneous rock that formed from lava on Earth's surface.
What is an extrusive igneous rock?
100
When all the grains in a rock are large and easy to see, the rock is described as...
What is coarse grained?
100
The process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind carrying it is...
What is deposition?
100
A series of processes on Earth's surface and in the crust and mantle that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another is...
What is the rock cycle?
100
The most abundant intrusive rock in the continental crust is...
What is granite?
200
Where a metamorphic rock would form...
What is deep underground?
200
To describe a rock's texture, geologists determine...
What is the size, shape, and pattern of the rock's grains?
200
The process that causes any rock to turn to magma is known as...
What is melting?
200
True or False...Rocks can only follow one pathway through the rock cycle.
What is false?
200
When lakes and seas evaporate, this type of sedimentary rock can form...
What is chemical?
300

Sedimentary rocks that are made up of broken pieces of other rocks.

What is a clastic sedimentary rock?

300
A metamorphic rock that has grains arranged in bands is said to be...
What is a foliated metamorphic rock?
300
Dissolved minerals and particles of sediment stick together to form sedimentary rock in a process called...
What is cementation?
300

The step that creates the sediment from which sedimentary rocks are formed is known as...

What is weathering?

300
This is how rocks and minerals are related...
What is rocks are made of minerals?
400

An igneous rock that cools very quickly when it forms may have a texture that is...

What is smooth and shiny with no visible grains?

400
Geologists use these characteristics to identify a rock.
What are the rock's mineral composition, color, and texture?
400
Erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation are the process in which...
What is a sedimentary rock forms?
400
Name a pathway in the rock cycle in which igneous rocks become metamorphic rocks.
What is ....
400

The difference in how rocks and minerals are classified.

What is rocks are classified by how and where they form and minerals are classified by their physical properties?

500

A sedimentary rock that forms from the remains of plants and animals.

What is an organic sedimentary rock?

500

Slate's texture is said to be... because it's minerals can only be seen with a microscope.

What is fine grained?

500

As layer upon layer of sediments build up, this process presses them together.

What is compaction?

500

Name the processes (arrows) that are involved in the rock cycle..there are 5

What is volcanic activity, melting, erosion-deposition-compaction-cementation, weathering, and heat and pressure?

500

Give an example of an organic sedimentary rock.

What is coal?

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