Which process squeezes fluids fom between individual grains?
Compaction
100
A natural, solid mixture of minerals and grains
What is rock.
100
Molten or liquid rock that is underground.
What is Magma
100
Molten rock that erupts from the Earth's surface.
What is lava.
100
The series of processes that change one type of rock into another type of rock is called...
What is the rock cycle.
200
Does volcanic glass contain crystals? Yes or No
NO
200
What geologists call the fragments that make ip a rock.
What is grains.
200
Rock that forms when lava cools too quickly to form crystals.
What is volcanic glass.
200
Broken pieces or fragments of rock are called...
What is clasts.
200
The process in which minerals disolved in water crystallize between sediment grains.
What is cementation.
300
What is the general term for a rock fragment present in a sedimentary rock?
A clast
300
The grain size and the way grains fit together in a rock is called...
What is texture.
300
The process in which the weight from the layers of sediment forces out fluids and decreases the space between grains.
What is compaction.
300
Sedimentary rocks that are made up of broken pieces of minerals and rock fragments.
What is clastic rocks.
300
This type of rock forms when minerals crystallize directly from water.
What are chemical rocks.
400
How do metamorphic rocks form?
From extreme temperature and pressure
400
When volcanic material erupts and cools and crystallizes on Earth's surface, it forms this type of ingenous rock.
What is extrusive rock
400
igneous rocks that form as magma cools underground.
What is intrusive rocks.
400
A sedimentary rock that was formed by organisms or contains the remains of organisms.
What is biochemical rocks.
400
Any process that affects the structure or composition of a rock in a solid state as a result of changes in temperature, pressure, or the addition of chemical fluids.
What is metamorphism.
500
Whick rock forms from cooling lava on the Earth's surface?
extrusive igneous
500
A rock mineral that forms where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces or disolved in water as rocks erode.
What is sediment.
500
A permenate change in the shape of a rock by bending or folding.
What is plastic deformation.
500
A rock that contains parallel layers of flat elongated minerals.
What is foilated rocks.
500
The formation of metamorphic rock bodies that are hundreds or square kilometers in size.