Sedimentary rocks can be changed to sediments by these processes.
What is weathering and erosion?
100
Basaltic (dark, mafic) igneous rocks are rich in these elements.
What are iron and magnesium?
100
The texture of metamorphic rocks that show alternate bands of light and dark minerals.
What is foliated?
100
Of the following, the one that is NOT an organic (biochemical) sedimentary rock?
coal, chalk, limestone, sandstone
What is sandstone?
100
A rock can be a ___ of minerals.
What is mixture?
200
The diagram shows that any rock type can become any other rock type.
What is the Rock Cycle Diagram?
200
Determines the grain size of the igneous rock.
What is the rate of cooling? (What is whether it is intrusive or extrusive?)
200
Of bent (layers) from pressure, flattened crystals, holes from trapped gas, bands or layers, the one that is not true of metamorphic rocks.
What is holes from trapped gas?
200
One of the cementing agents that help form detrital sedimentary rocks.
What is calcite, limonite, or silica (or hematite)?
200
The cooling history of extrusive igneous rocks.
What is cools rapidly?
300
Changes in rocks never create nor destroy it.
What is matter?
300
Molten rock material deep under the surface of the Earth.
What is magma?
300
The processes that may cause schist or granite to become the foliated rock gneiss.
What are heat and pressure? (What is a regional metamorphism?)
300
Rocks that are formed when loose materials become pressed or cemented together or when minerals form from solutions.
What are sedimentary rocks?
300
Non-clastic, chemical sedimentary rocks can be formed out of solution by either of these processes.
What is evaporation or precipitation?
400
Magma is to lava as ...
What is intrusive to extrusive?
400
The reason magma rises to the surface
What is magma is less dense (due to its heat) than the surrounding rock?
400
The presence of many metamorphic rocks (in the Piedmont) in Virginia indicates that Virginia has been subjected to these processes.
What are heat and pressure?
400
The name of a detrital sedimentary rock made of gravel sized rounded fragments.
What is conglomerate
400
The reason that marble would rarely contain fossils.
What is the heat and pressure destroys relics of past life?
500
The person who realized that rocks undergo changes through long periods of time after observing rocks at Siccar Point, Scotland.
What is Jame Hutton?
500
Cooling/Magma Basaltic Andesitic Granitic
Slow Cooling Gabbro Diorite Granite
Fast Cooling Basalt/scoria Andesite Obsidian/Pumice
The name of a coarse grained intrusive rock.
What is Granite?
500
Metamorphism does not change the minerals of a rock by this.
What is melting?
500
A detrital rock made of sand sized grains.
What is sandstone?
500
Of shale, slate, phyllite, and schist, the one that is not metamorphic.