Metamorphic
Metamorphic rocks experience this action within their mineralogy, texture, or chemical composition.
What is change?
Metamorphic rocks crystallize (cool) from this naturally occurring material.
What is magma?
Sedimentary rocks are made from these fragments.
What are sediments?
A glassy volcanic rock.
What is obsidian?
Kylee's favourite mineral.
What is potassium fledspar?
Type of metamorphic rocks that breaks into thin slabs when hit with a hammer.
What is slate?
Igneous rocks are classified by these two categories.
The two types of rock weathering.
What are physical and chemical?
The most common type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
Example of how NOT to identify a sample (Ben).
What is licking?
Metamorphic rock formed from quartz.
What is quartzite?
Type of igneous rock formed as magma cools slowly, with good crystal formation.
What is intrusive igneous?
Examples include ripple marks, cross bedding, mudcracks, and fossils.
What are sedimentary structures?
The diagram showing the life and changes rocks experience.
What is the rock cycle?
The best water skipping rock has this characteristic.
What is flat?
Three factors that cause metamorphic rocks.
What are heat, pressure, and chemical activity?
Two igneous composition types: from light to dark.
What are felsic and mafic?
The process of converting sediments to rock through compaction and cementation.
What is lithification?
Lines on a rock showing how it deforms or divides.
What is foliation?
The strongest minecraft rock.
What is bedrock?
Rock formed during high grade metamorphism.
What is gneiss?
Two types of igneous rocks: one is fine grained and one is coarse grained.
What are aphanitic and phaneretic?
Sedimentary rock made up of calcium carbonate.
What is limestone?
The classifying system in which different minerals crystallization at different temperatures based on their melting points.
What is Bowens Reaction Series?
Location where Sarah viewed igneous rocks.
What is Hawaii?