Origin of Sedimentary Rocks
Composition of Sedimentary Rocks
Sedimentary Rock Structures
Review Igneous Rocks
More Igneous Rock
100
The most noticeable feature of sedimentary rock is its layers
What is strata
100
What kind of sedimentary rocks are formed when rock or mineral fragments, called clasts, are cemented together?
What is Clastic sedimentary rock
100
The process in which sedimentary rocks are arranged in layers
What is stratification
100
What 2 things need to cool solidify in order to form igneous rocks?
What is hot, liquid rock, or magma
100
When magma intrudes, or pushes, into surrounding rock below the Earth’s surface and cools, the rock that forms is called
What is intrusive igneous rock
200
5 things that causes rock to physically weather into fragments
What is: Wind, water, ice, sunlight, and gravity
200
What kind of sedimentary rock is forms from the remains of once-living plants and animals?
What is Organic Sedimentary Rock.
200
The feature in which Sedimentary rocks sometimes record the motion of wind and water waves on lakes, oceans, rivers,
What is ripple marks
200
Igneous rock begins as ...
What is magma
200
Two category names for igneous rocks are called...
What is intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks
300
Where do sedimentary rocks form?
At or near earth's surface
300
What kind of sedimentary rock is formed forms when minerals crystallize out of a solution, such as sea water, to become rock?
What is Chemical Sedimentary Rock
300
What are 2 kinds of organic sedimentary rocks?
What is coral and limestone.
300
What are three ways magma can form?
What is when rock is heated, when pressure is released, or when rock changes composition.
300
What is the largest of all igneous intrusions?
What is batholiths
400
What is the name of the process when rock and mineral fragments, called sediment, are moved from one place to another.
What is erosion
400
True or False. Clastic sedimentary rocks cannot have coarse-grained, medium-grained, or fine-grained textures.
What is False
400
Corals are not the only animals whose remains are found in fossiliferous limestone what are 2 other animals found in fossiliferous limestone?
What is clams, oysters, or other mollusks.
400
What is the name for the 2 categories of igneous rocks?
What is mafic and felsic
400
Usually has a coarse-grained texture because it is well insulated by surrounding rock and cools very slowly
What is intrusive igneous rock
500
True or False. Sedimentary Rocks form without the heat and pressure that are involved in the formation of igneous and metamorphic rocks?
What is True
500
What is one type of chemical sedimentary rock, is made of sodium chloride, NaCl, or table salt?
What is Halite.
500
How does a Halite rock form?
What is when sodium ions and chlorine ions in shallow bodies of water become so concentrated that halite crystallizes from solution.
500
What is the difference between felsic rock and mafic rock?
What is Felsic rocks are less dense than Mafic rocks. Also, Felsic rocks are light in color and Mafic rocks are dark in color.
500
Sometimes lava erupts and flows from long cracks in the Earth’s crust called
What is fissures
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