Classification
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Miscellaneous
100
The small particles that give a rock its texture.
What is grains.
100
This describes how igneous rocks are formed.
What is when magma or lava cools?
100
The process in which sediments are "glued" together.
What is cementation?
100
How metamorphic rocks are formed.
What is when heat and pressure change a rock?
100
The type of sedimentary rock that coral reefs form.
What is limestone?
200
The look and feel of the rock's surface.
What is texture?
200
The most common type of extrusive rock.
What is basalt?
200
Sedimentary rocks that form from the remains of living things are called this.
What is organic?
200
These occur when the grains of a metamorphic rock line up in layers.
What is foliated rocks?
200
The type of rock that is formed when plates move apart.
What is igneous rocks?
300
It is a mixture of minerals and other materials.
What is a rock?
300
Thhesqueezing of layers of sediment.
What is compaction?
300
A common metamorphic rock used for creating statues.
What is marble?
300
Where coral animals can live.
What is in water?
400
The number of rock-forming minerals that make up most of hte rocks in Earth's crust.
What is 20?
400
A rock often used for cleaning and polishing.
What is pumice?
400
The particles that make up sedimentary rock.
What is sediments?
400
Three types of Metamorphic rock.
What are gneiss, quartzite, and slate?
400
A common place to find igneous rock.
What is near a volcano?
500
The three types of sedimentary rocks.
What are clastic, chemical, and organic?
500
Describes the origin of an igneous rock.
What are extrusive or intrusive?
500
The process that turns rock into sediment.
What is Erosion?
500
The way in which geologists classify metamorhpic rocks.
What is folliated or nonfolliated?
500
Forces deep inside Earth and at the surface produce a slow cycle that builds, destroys, and changes the rocks in the crust
What is the Rock Cycle?
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