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The slushy mix of molten rock, dissolved gases, and mineral crystals found in Earth's mantle or when Earth's crust melts.
What is magma?
100
A description of the sediment's size caused by the amount of energy involved during transport.
What is grain size?
100
The continuous changing and remaking of rocks. Any rock can be changed into any rock type if exposed to specific formation conditions.
What is the rock cycle?
100
An igneous rock formed when magma cooled slowly inside the Earth which has large crystals.
What is intrusive?
100
The transfer of heat from a warm substance to the cooler atmosphere.
What is cooling?
200
A description of the sediment's shape caused by the duration of transport.
What is grain shape?
200
The process of removing and transporting sediments.
What is erosion?
200
Igneous rock formed when magma cooled quickly outside the Earth and has small crystals.
What is extrusive?
200
A melted, liquid mixture of minerals.
What is molten rock?
200
The minerals form layers and bands when exposed to high pressure.
What is foliated texture?
300
Rocks change form
What is metamorphism?
300
The process of transported sediments being place on the ground or sinking to the bottom of a body of water.
What is deposition?
300
The type of rocks formed from the sediments of other rocks which have been glued together by dissolve minerals.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
The type of rocks that have been changed from either igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary due to high heat and/or pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
The process when molten rocks begin to change from liquid to solid and the minerals inside form into crystals.
What is crystallization?
400
When heat from an igneous intrusion contacts any type of solid rock and changes that rock into metamorphic.
What is contact metamorphism?
400
The physical and chemical processes that changed sediments into sedimentary rocks.
What is lithification?
400
When heat and pressure affect large areas of Earth's crust.
What is regional metamorphism?
400
Identify this type of rock and the texture.
What is ______________ and _________________?
400
A rock texture where minerals form blocky crystal shapes due to high heat and pressure.
What is non-foliated?
500
The relationship between plate tectonics and the processes involved in the formation of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks.
What is the rock sequence?
500
The physical and chemical processes that create, transport, and deposit sediments to form sedimentary rocks.
What is sedimentation?
500
Convergent and divergent plate boundaries create conditions that form and reform rocks on Earth.
What is the plate tectonics context?
500
The type of rocks formed when lava or magma cools and minerals crystallize.
What is igneous rock?
500
A set of physical and chemical processes that breaks rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?