Vocab 1
molten rock emerging as a liquid onto Earth's surface
What is Lava
naturally occurring mass of one or more minerals
What is a rock
Rocks that are formed from other rocks
What are Sedimentary
Blank turns into Igneous rocks through the process of solidification
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What is Paris
the way a mineral reflects light
What is Luster
the color of a mineral in its powdered form
What is Streak
Air pockets in Igneous rocks are called what
What is vesicular
Sediments undergo BLANK to become sedimentary rocks
What is compaction and cementation or deposition and burial.
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a naturally occurring inorganic element or compound
What is a Mineral
how each of the three major rock types form and break down
What is Rock Cycle
If Igneous Rocks have big crystals, they formed where?
What is intrusively (or inside the Earth).
What turns sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks
What is heat and pressure or metamorphism
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rock formed when pre-existing rocks are exposed to intense heat and pressure
What is Metamorphic
rock formed from pre-existing rocks or pieces of once-living organisms through layering and compaction
What is Sedimentary
Crystalline Sedimentary rocks are classified by
what is composition
This process turns all rocks into magma
what is melting
marine mammal that we could stand up in their veins
What is a Blue Whale
sedimentary rock that is composed of the remains of small organisms
What is Bioclastic
when rocks are changed over a wide area by the forces of plate tectonics
What is Regional Metamorphism
How are clastic sedimentary rocks classified?
What is grain size
What is Weathering and Erosion
The largest island in the world
What is greenland