Classifying Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
The Rock Cycle
100
What is the minerals that make up Earth's Crust?
What is rock-forming minerals?
100
Which rock is the most common intrusive rock? Extrusive?
What is granite? What is basalt? OR: What is granite and basalt?
100
The rock slate formed from which rock?
What is Shale?
100
Coral reefs are tiny relatives of which marine organims?
What is jellyfish?
100
What are the slow processes on Earth's surface and in the crust that slowly change rocks from one type to another?
What is the rock cycle?
200
Jagged rock belongs to which rock describing texture group?
What is grain shape?
200
How do scientists classify IGNEOUS rocks?
What is orgin, texture, and mineral composition?
200
The Lincoln Memorial is made up of which metamorphic rock?
What is marble?
200
Name the three types of sedimentary rocks?
What is clastic, oganic, and chemical rock?
200
Plate movements start the what?
What is the rock cycle?
300
Granite is a light-colored rock that has high what?
What is silica content
300
Magma that is high in silica forms what type of colored rocks?
What is light-colored rocks?
300
According to what do scientists classify metamorphic rocks?
What is arrangements of grains?
300
__?__ is the process by which sediment settles out of water or wind carrying it.
What is deposition?
300
Can rocks be formed from the same type of rock?
What is yes?
400
When geologists observe rocks, what characteristics do they observe?
What is rock's minerals composition, texture, and color?
400
What orgin does the root word "ignis" come from and what does it mean?
What is Latin, and fire?
400
Collision between Earth's plates can push rocks down where?
What is the mantle?
400
Steel can be made of which type of rock?
What is limestone?
400
What moves Earth's crust around?
What is plate tectonics?
500
Granite is made up of which minerals?
What is quartz, feldspar, hornblende, and mica?
500
Which two igneous rocks are used for cleaning supply and tool making?
What is obsidian and pumice?
500
Rocks that have grains that are arranged randomly are called what?
What is nonfoliated rocks?
500
Which chemical rock is a form of limestone?
What is tufa?
500
The collision of continental plates can push up what?
What is mountain ranges?
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