Classifying Rocks
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Geologists classify rocks into 3 major groups
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
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Minerals that precipitate from evaporation are called
mineral deposits
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Changes in enormous quantities of rock over a wide area caused by extreme pressure from overlying rock or from compression caused by geologic processes
Regional metamorphism
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Freezing and thawing are part of this process
Weathering and erosion
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Magma cools and crystallizes in the cycle forming this type of rock
What is intrusive igneous rock
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This common rock-forming minerals that form tetrahedrons which can form rocks like feldspar and quartz.
Silicates
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This is the reason new minerals form in a metamorphic process
The need for stability
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The type of rock that forms from magma or lava cooling
What is igneous rock
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This type of rock is formed from lava ON the earth's surface.
What is extrusive igneous rock
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These are the building blocks of rocks
Minerals
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These types of rocks can become metamorphic rocks
What is igneous, sedimentary and other metamorphic rocks
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This is the final step in the formation of sedimentary rock
cementation
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Rocks with different textures but that are made of the same minerals have this
What is different names?
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This is the driving energy source behind the formation of igneous and metamophic rocks
Earth's interior
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This is the term for a solid that has been released from a solution of evaporating water or liquid
Precipitate
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An extrusive rock with dark color, fine grains and low silica
What is basalt.
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This is the type of rock that are fossils most likely to be discovered in
Sedimentary rock
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The formation of these rocks is driven largely by the Sun.
Sedimentary rocks
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The process where layers of sediment become pressed together over time
What is compaction
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Flat layers that form in rocks as rocks are squeezed by pressure
foliation
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Rocks are generally identified by this means.
Texture and the mineral they contain
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What should be replacing the question mark?
What is deposition or sedimentation?
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This type of felsic igneous rock is black with a glassy texture. 
What is obsidian
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Formed by the accumulation of dead plant matter or animal remains being cemented together.
What is Coal
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The texture of a metamorphic rock arranged in parallel layers (bands) is called
What is foliated
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Changes in a rock that is in contact with magma due to the magma's extreme heat
Contact Metamorphism
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If rocks cool slowly describe the size of the crystal it will produce
What is large?
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Describe sediment?
What is pieces of rock, sand and dirt?
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Igneous rock cools very quickly.When it forms the appearance could be described as _________.
What is smooth or shiny or no visible crystals (glassy or vitreous)
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This extrusive igneous rock can float in water, and some people use it to clean their feet. It has many air bubbles.
What is pumice
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The three groups of rocks are classified by this means
how they were formed
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Two igneous rocks may be made from the same minerals but have different names due to this.
They may have different textures
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The processes by which sediments become sedimentary rocks - three words
Deposition, compaction or cementation
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If granite undergoes high heat and pressure within the Earth, what type of rock will be formed.
Gneiss (a metamorphic rock)
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Sedimentary rocks that include organic material are call this
Bioclastic sedimentary rocks
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These are the two types of rocks formed from Heat from the Earths Interior.
Metamorphic and Igneous
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This is the type of energy that drives the formation of rocks
Thermal
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This type of rock forms below the Earth's surface when rock is changed through heat and pressure
Metamorphic
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These are the two main ways that eroded material is transported from its origin
wind and water
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Metamorphic rocks can form banded layers called this
Foliation (Foliated rocks)
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The energy used to form sedimentary rocks comes from this source
The Sun
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Rocks that cool very quickly may not have formed any of these
Crystals