These are the Geological processes in which rocks form and change from one type to another. It's destroyed and formed again.
What is the Rock Cycle?
100
This is how Igneous rock forms.
What is when magma cools and solidifies?
100
This occurs when the volume and porosity of a sediment is decreased by the weight of overlying sediments as a result of burial beneath other sediments.
What is compaction?
100
These rocks form when one type of rock changes into another rock because of chemical processes or changes in temp and/or pressure.
What is metamorphic?
100
This is the layering of sedimentary rocks and the layers are also known as. (7 layer dip)
What is stratification and beds?
200
This illustrates the order in which minerals crystallize from cooling magma according to their chemical composition and melting point.
What is Bowen's Reaction series.
200
These 3 factors effect whether rock melts.
What is temperature, pressure, and presence of fluids in the rock?
200
This happens when minerals precipitate into pore spaces between sediment grains and bind sediments together to form rock.
What is cementation?
200
These 3 things influence the type of metamorphic rock that will form.
What is heat, pressure, and hot fluids?
200
Cross-beds or slanting layers commonly form in these.
What are sand dunes or river beds.
300
A mineral's chemical stability depends on the strength of these.
What is chemical bonds between atoms?
300
Partial melting deals with this.
What is the process in which different minerals melt at different temperatures?
300
Chemical sedimentary rocks occur when either of these 2 things occur and this is an example.
What is when minerals precipitate from a solution or settle from a suspension? What is Gypsum or Halite?
300
During their formation, some crystals line and some do not, which is called this and looks like this.
What is foliated and nonfoliated and looks like a layered appearance.
300
This explains the formation of graded bedding.
What is when various sizes and kinds of material are deposited in one layer, with the largest grains at the bottom and finest, at the top.
400
This is considered a rocks Physical Stability.
What are natural zones of weakness that are determined by how and where the rock forms.
400
Fractional crystallization explains how not all minerals do this at the same time.
What is Crystallize?
400
This forms from the remains of plants or animals and this is an example.
What is organic sedimentary rock? What is coal or limestone?
400
Contact metamorphism is this.
What is a change in texture, structure, or chemical composition of the rock due to contact with magma.
400
Ripple marks or mud cracks occur in these types of places.
What are river beds and areas where water was previously.
500
Geologists look at these two things in order to know where and how rocks are formed.
What are physical and chemical stability?
500
Igneous rocks can be observed as being one of these 3 colors.
What is felsic (light), intermediate (medium), and mafic (dark).
500
Shale is an example of these and are formed this way.
What is clastic sedimentary rocks that form when fragments of preexisting rocks are compacted and cemented together.
500
These are the 2 differences between contact and regional metamorphism.
What are changes due to temperature and pressure over a large area as a result of tectonic forces.
500
These are only found in sedimentary rocks and these are old mud.