Rock Classification
Type of rock that forms around volcanic activity
What is IGNEOUS rock?
Through metamorphism, granite changes to _______.
What is GNEISS?
A metamorphic rock that has grains arranged in parallel layers or bands are said to be _______.
What is FOLIATED?
A series of processes on Earth's surface and inside the planet that slowly change rocks from one kind to another.
What is the ROCK CYCLE?
A ring shaped coral island found far from land.
What is ATOLL?
A type of rock that forms from particles or remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together.
What is SEDIMENTARY rock?
Slate is a metamorphic rock that forms from _______.
What is SHALE?
Calcium changes to __________ to form skeletons of coral animals.
What is CALCITE?
Collisions between _____________ can move rocks through the rock cycle.
What are CONTINENTAL PLATES?
A structure of calcite skeletons built up by coral animals in warm, shallow ocean water.
What is a CORAL REEF?
A particle of mineral or other rock that gives a rock its texture.
What is GRAIN?
Marble is a widely used metamorphic rock because it:
a. has a fine, even grain.
b. is relatively easy to cut into slabs.
c. can be easily polished.
d. all of the above
What is d. All of the above?
3 types of Clastic Rocks:
What is:
SHALE, SANDSTONE, AND CONGLOMERATE?
_______ and ________ change sandstone into quartzite over millions of years.
What is HEAT and PRESSURE?
An igneous rock texture in which large crystals are scattered on a background of much smaller crystals.
What is PORPHYRITIC TEXTURE? (paw fur it ick)
What is TEXTURE?
Metamorphic rock forms from Igneous rocks, Sedimentary rocks and ___________ rocks.
What is Metamorphic?
Igneous rocks may be classified as _____ or _____, depending on where they form.
What is EXTRUSIVE or INTRUSIVE?
Earth's constructive and destructive forces move rocks through the _____ ______.
What is the ROCK CYCLE?
Three types of sedimentary rocks.
What are CLASTIC, ORGANIC, and CHEMICAL ROCKS?
Metamorphic rocks change forms from other existing rocks through heat, pressure, or _______________.
That is CHEMICAL REACTIONS?
The word Metamorphic can be broken down to:
Meta meaning change and morphosis meaning _____.
What is form?
Compaction is the process that presses sediments together, cementation is the process in which dissolved minerals _________ and glued particles of sediment together.
What is CRYSTALIZE?
Over millions of years water and ________ wear away mountain's granite to become sand.
What is WEATHER?
Igneous rocks form from _______ or _______.